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And So It Ends, And Begins

02/28/2017 at 8:33pm EST

Well, there goes Smith. We saw that coming.

Is Vanek playing tonight? Because, you know, if he is, that would be stupid even by Holland/Blashill standards, and those standards for stupidity are incredibly low or high, depending on the ratio(nale) you use.

Vanek, our second best offensive player this year, is gone. Now it just boils down to what our overrated, most likely napping, definitely tire-kicking GM can get.

Who else could or should go?

Anyone but Mantha, AA and Larkin.

I genuinely hope Hank Zetterberg is playing somewhere else tomorrow night. I hope his absolute effort this year is rewarded with a trip to the time of year he lives for. And make no mistake about it, that guy does live for the playoffs. The regular season has always seemed like a chore to 40. The playoffs have always been his orgy.

Move him. Move him to Pittsburgh or San Jose.

Move him to Edmonton and let him immediately affect those kids. Help them surprise a few people.

Move Mrazek. Move Ott. Sell the frigging farm. Move Sheahan and Abdelkader, Green, Nyquist and Tatar.

That should be the decree Ken Holland lives by tonight and tomorrow.

And you put Vanek in the damn press box, or in a glass case guarded by large women hired by Jiri Hudler to do things the purists would frown on upriver.

It's a disgusting feeling we share tonight. For decades this was Christmas Eve. Naturally, most of these nights during the Holland era have been a whole lot of bluster and high hopes followed by quotes the next day regaling us of effort and the trade difficulty factor, kicked tires and "I like our team".

But it's a new normal now, Nancy. Sell it all, sugar foot. Sell. It. All.

It's the Live Blog you never wanted, the Live Blog you never thought you'd see. It's the Live Blog every other fan in every other city has suffered through the last 25 years except us. It's a motherfukking full-on sell mode Live Blog, bitches.

LGRW, drink up, FKH ASAP and SIT VANEK.

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