Paul Bissonnette

an unbelievable deadline in trying to shake things up.

And a lot of these prospects who are down in the AHL, like Yann's talked about, they do, a few of them have to pop and have to come up and eventually make impacts.

And I think that if you are able to see that growth next year and for them to squeak into playoffs, that's kind of the start of, all right, let's go on a run here where you're guaranteed postseason hockey, where you're

I personally, as frustrated as it is and as much of the same thing as we've seen over the last three, four years in March and fizzling out at the end of the year, you got to stick to the game plan and not hit the panic button.

That's it.

That's it.

I think you got to give it one more year, but we're going Braveheart execution style, Stevie Bong rips at the end of next year if they don't make playoffs.

And it pains me to say that because we're talking about an all-time great here.

I personally would have went after Robert Thomas.

Like, I think that's ridiculous.

And the other argument within the fan base is maybe after the Olympics, as good as Larkin was in the first half and as good as he was at Olympics, you know, his play regressed a little bit.

But we've all seen that from some guys who went to the Olympics playing all this crazy hockey.

Also, Larkin had to come back from an injury as well.

So he might not be playing at 100%.

So now all of a sudden you've got people questioning Stevie why they want him gone.

The fan base is divided on that.

They're questioning their captain's leadership and what he's able to do and whether he's a number one center or not.

It's ugly as the discourse from the fan base and the media side of it in Hockey Town.

Well, that's because of Ryan Whitney.

That's because a little bit of delusion for the winged wheel.