 RDOilerfan
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Registered: January 2016
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I guess when you don't make the playoffs after so many years, you feel compelled to fire everyone but on the flip side, what did you expect?
Crosby 35 turns 36 in Aug. Signed 2 more yrs
Malkin 36 turns 37 in July. Signed 3 more yrs.
Carter 38, turns 39 in Jan. Signed for 1 more yr.
Petry 35, turns 36 in Dec. Signed for 2 more yrs
Letang 35, turns 36 in April. Signed for 5 more yrs and he has had 2 strokes.
Go down the list and they are not a young team. I don't know of their system but they have been going for it for a long time so I don't imagine they have a ton of high end prospects because they traded so many picks.
They wanted to keep Crosby, Malkin and Letang as career Pens and I get it but at some point when you have been trying to win for so long and trading away all these picks and prospects to keep in the window, eventually you start to age out. Now they are lucky that Crosby, Malkin and Letang are still playing at a pretty high level but their supporting cast is not where it needs to be thanks to going for it all those years. Whoever gets hired has a pretty difficult job to do.
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