OK, what the effin’eff is going on with the Hurricanes?

It’s always at times like this when I wish most for season tickets, because I have this insane need to know what makes things tick–especially when they’re broken. I want to know what’s going on, I want to find out where things are going wrong, and (in the case of the Hurricanes) I want to get a feel for the general mood on the ice–and it’s pretty hard to do that just through a TV screen.

So, what to do?  Realistically, our only tradebait is Erik Cole–and he’s not going to go cheap. Some idiot wants Stillman to go, but I don’t see that happening because of that lovely little NTC that JimR doled out to (him) all the vets like Xmas prezzies. Commodore?  Meh. Trading him would be like trading a spare part.

Anyone who seriously suggests trading the Warchief will die horribly.

Rosie?  Man, Rosie Rosie Rosie…I love him and would miss him terribly, but if trading him meant that we could shore up our defense I’d do it.

Ladd won’t go anywhere unless it was some egregious blockbuster that was heavily tilted in our favour–no way would JimR trade away somebody that he drafted at the RBC and with such great fanfare, unless he wound up being Jeff O’Neill 2.0 or something.

One guy suggested stripping the Warchief of the C, which actually made me laugh.  Did this guy clamour for Ron Francis to be stripped of his captaincy during the Season From Hell?  No?  Then what’s changed here?

All we know is that something is broken, and it needs to be fixed tout suite.