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You are what your record says you are32-32 -10. What that record really says is you lost 42 games. Could go as high as 50, with eight to go. Let’s say that loss number ends up being 48. You lost 48 out of 82. I think if your management, Lou, Patrick, assistants, team, and fans you have to ruminate on it. UBS after 4 years has lost its luster, simply because of the on ice product. Management’s” In Lou We Trust” has come to a just ending I believe. Ledecky has been invisible, Malkin is not happy. In defense of those guys they have been great owners! They are patient thoughtful men. They have given us a great arena, and a wonderful off ice experience and environment. I personally think Patrick should be the GM. However he was the one who wanted to bring in DuClair. Lou has not only cratered the Islanders but Bridgeport too. Bridgeport looks like Chernobyl. We are left holding a few bags of excrement with catastrophic AAV’s and term. Off the top of my head 18-20 million of AHL level players. Maybe some had NHL careers at some point but, they are what they are. For people to say this team just needs a retool is a stretch. Your stars that you really have based the franchise on are Barzel and Dobson. Give that a moment and Let that sink in. I don’t know if management has faith in Patrick, I do. I believe he is the right dude, but from now on understand you either bring in a superstar FA or build with young promising players or a combo. No more average or marginal vets in an attempt to prop up the team. I don’t think anyone is above trading. That said Lou has given out NTC like a drunk Santa! The smoking wreckage has been four or five years coming. It’s honestly like looking at a failed rocket launch and carefully piecing through the wreckage. Who do you keep. Who do you send to an Adam Oates or a Chara for off season make overs. Who do you buy out? Who are cowards and fraudulent in spirit. Who could you get a little more from at any level in the organization. Can it be turned around quickly, the odds are against that considering you’re saddled with so many bags of excrement for so long I don’t use that term for them as people only players. I wouldn’t mind them doing a complete tear down on this team. Trading core pieces for great returns via young proven prospects and Draft capital. Instead of half ass trying to retrofit a flawed team. We are at an organizational inflection point. The owners have to give the keys to someone and tell them assess the situation and give me a path forward no matter how drastic you believe it is.

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