Will Bishop be the next former Blue to win the cup?

The reason I've been taking so long to reply is because I hardly ever check this account anymore. Between this comment and your previous one, it is extremely clear that your hockey knowledge doesn't extend beyond yelling "SHOOOOOOOOOOOT" when we have a power play.

One: You continually state falsehoods as facts. You keep insisting all these players who were under contract for multiple years were close to walking as UFAs. You're either outright lying or you're one of the most moronic people I've seen post on here. I actually envy you, your extreme ignorance must allow extreme bliss. Hey, Pietrangelo's contract ends in another 5 or 6 years, right? Let's trade him, his contract will expire one day. We can't just let him walk! That's thinking "long-term." Genius.

Two: You're dumb enough to continually compare a period of time where we were selling off assets in order to rebuild to our current team state, that of a finished product. Apparently the entire concept of rebuilding is lost on you. Swell.

Three:

the pieces we've given up have not done anything elsewhere that would have made this team any better than it is today if they had stayed.

The point is we gave up assets and gained nothing. Why is that so hard for you to grasp? I'm not saying our team would be much better with all of these players, I'm saying they were given away and nothing was gained. What did we get? Paajarvi? Steve Ott? That's awful asset management when we used to be completely stacked with winger depth. Wake the fuck up. You're arguing something that I'm not. Try reading and thinking before vomiting out your opinion.

We won our trades.

Really? Is that why the Ryan Miller trade was universally mocked after that entire debacle? You sure have your finger on the pulse of the hockey world. Are you secretly Elliotte Friedman?

Four: You're entirely ignorant as to how the actual sport of hockey works.

Of fucking course our possession numbers are worse with him on the ice. HES ON THE FOURTH LINE ya dingus.

Minimizing just how awful Steve Ott is, what an extreme detriment to this team he is both on and off the ice, with a statement like this, is the cherry on top of the "you don't know what you're talking about" sundae. There's no saving you, all is lost.

I actually feel bad for you. You shat out pages upon pages of foolishness while simultaneously accusing me of not knowing what I'm talking about with some ad hominem nonsense. This actually goes beyond hockey knowledge. We're talking about you completely lacking any sort of ability to think critically. We're talking about you being completely devoid of even the most basic reading comprehension skills. I actually spent about 30 seconds wondering if English isn't your native language, or if you've received major head trauma at some point, but then I quit caring and went back to watching Sir Bobby Blake films.

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