tenken00
Oh it's going down in Chinatown
- Jan 29, 2010
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It's not looking good at all. And I'm talking long-term, this series is long gone. When they extended some of these guys(Oshie) we knew the contract would stink later on when their play fell off a cliff. Oshie hasn't even been sandbagging as bad as some of the other guys. It paid off in a Cup so can't complain too much but I don't think they have any ammo to keep reloading. Not like we can just trade our old vets for younger players to keep up, we'd get pennies on the dollar. I once thought Kuzy would be a stud and heir apparent to Ovi but he clearly isn't the answer. I don't know how much we'd get back for him even, everyone else in the league sees the same thing we do. Pretty soon just watching Ovi chase the goal scoring record will be our Stanley Cup.
I dont know about the sheer doom and gloom that your post describes, but I do agree that if the Caps were to have any successful transition period, it would have to rely on Kuznetsov. We all knew that he was the key for the Caps to remain in prominence after the rest succumb to old age.
With the fading of Kuzy's star is the twilight of the Caps light.
At least, that is until the next generation takes place.