@ProfessorLGRW LOOK WHAT HE DID AT THE OLYMPICS!
He was third or fourth line center. Look what he did AFTER the olympics - 4Nations too. Nothing.
Came back and pouted "I miss my friends."
@indyslicks@JimCosta_ If you Thanos snapped Larkin off the team, does anything Yzerman drafted or traded for change?
It doesn't. Weirdly. It makes more sense that he's building / timelined around Seider, not Larkin.
@ErikHanson2@JimCosta_ And "built" around him like a 1C. Because if you remove Larkin does anything change with Yzerman's drafting, approach? And now that you can jettison the guy you didn't think could lead - watch the return come back and be the solution more than - well Larkin needs a Cup!
@charlieo_conn Or. Counter Argument. Yzerman was never building around Larkin. He didn't draft him, he inherited him. So why upset the rebuild to appease what he saw as the problem.
@Spenmorax 1) Becomes a ten team clause in two years.
2) Contenders don't have the pieces to make a move. Fringe teams do. Specifically teams with friends.
3) This was the case regardless of 71?
4) Kane is tied to 93 not 71.
5) Without 71 this was always the plan and makes more sense.