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I NOW Consider THIS To Be The REAL Summer of Ken

06/21/2016 at 8:17am EDT

Clearly, Ken Holland is elite. Clearly, he is a hall of famer by the most stringent of standards. Clearly, Ken Holland, no matter what he does to ignore this team in the next 45 days or so, remains our savior.

Having said all that, I'm going to say something else that no one else has said, and I'm going to say it so you can say that it was me who got it said: If that contract gets eaten our boy Tick Tock had better go.

Do you want Stamkos? I mean, seriously. Do you? Yes. We do. Are we going to get Stamkos (or Backes, or anyone else other than a 38 year old reclamation) if 7.5 stays on the books? No.

Are you, Kenny, seriously telling us that you're sad and depressed and pessimistic about the Datsyuk contract because you don't want to give up...Pulkkinen?

Holland crafted the contract that the Wings are now about to swallow, whore style. Holland is the sad clown at the microphone telling us this might just be too hard. Holland is the figurehead, the hapless, the apathetic manager who somehow couldn't see that Datsyuk wanted to head home, who unbelievably didn't see this coming and made no preparations for the shit show he's now sitting criss-cross apple sauce right in the middle of.

Not a management team. Not a trusty core of advisors. Ken Holland. One man is to blame for this and if it doesn't get fixed, if he can't unload that contract to one of Gary's science projects, he needs to go.

Even if it's not Stamkos, even if you use that 7.5 to improve the team with a couple of other signings, it's better than such a huge chunk of unused money just sitting there. Stagnant. Unused. Unspent. Withering. Willowing. Like a GM.

Holland's quotes are just so predictable. It's so pathetic and it's so routine.

"I'm not overly optimtistic...don't know if it makes a lot of sense...talked to a few teams...kicking tires...I like our team...men's league."

Recycled. Rehashed. Regurgitated for years. The same crap.

Trade that money, Kenny. Trade it. Trade the frigging contract or get the hell out of a job you can't do anymore, or maybe never could.

We know what's going to happen. Every one of us knows it. Datsyuk's contract will remain on the Detroit books because it is simply too hard to move. Too hard for Hapless Holland. It's going to take an agile, creative management mind to do this thing and we haven't seen a creative move from Holland in more than a decade. An honest question might very well be a simple, "what do you do all day?" Seriously. What the hell does Ken Holland actually do? Because he hasn't, you know, done anything in years.

We're going to eat that contract. Holland's going to stay. More kids will come up. Mediocrity will continue to be accepted. 26 will be the goal. Etc, etc, etc.

How any of us are satisfied with this situation is a mystery. Why this is allowed to fester is mind boggling.

It should be very simple: if the 7.5 stays, Holland goes. If the 7.5 goes, Holland's done his job, or at least repaired a situation that he, himself, created.

What a mess.

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