I will say one thing. We do have a young team overall (most of our players grilfriends were babysitting for Leafs players a couple years ago). I would not say we are rebuilding but we are certainly not a veteran laden team. We are somewhere in between. Bottom line is that we are a couple seasons away from contending for a Cup. Having said that, we do have a team that will be exciting and will be in most games they play this year. With a young team, that is good.

But I do agree that we have to stop panicking. I still say Dagenais is useless. And Ribs is only 25% as good as he thinks he is. But overall we have a good team. Give the TEAM some time and the coaching staff some time to see what we have. I think players like Souray are still grappling with the new rules.

If I can comment on the new rules. I think they have gone too far the other way. It went from being able to practically hook onto a guy and have him pull you up the ice, to the point now where the tape on your stick just touches the guy and you get a penalty. I play pick up hockey on Sunday mornings where the only hitting done is the bottle in the dressing room after. What I have seen reminds me of that. Players need to be able to at least minimalize a little bit a players movement. As it stands now, all a dman can do is wave goodbye to th eguy on the way by.