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Cup Hopes Can Arrive Quickly & Fade Fast
by Paul on 04/26/08 at 06:41 AM ET
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from Mark Spector of the National Post,
Winning the Cup is like climbing K2. There are many paths to the same destination.
Under the salary-cap system, building through the draft has been re-adopted as the best way to build a winner. But here in Pittsburgh they’re really only in Year 2 of being a competitive team, and in last night’s lineup they will have eight players who will become unrestricted free agents. And that doesn’t count injured forward Gary Roberts and defenceman Mark Eaton. Goalie Marc-Andre Fleury becomes a restricted free agent at year’s end as well.
It can’t be easy building a team of destiny, when so many parts can be lost at one time.
“We’ve got a lot of unrestricted guys, restricted guys. There’s a window,” admits Darryl Sydor, a reserve
defenceman on this Penguins squad who played on Dallas’s Stanley Cup team back in 1999, and in Tampa in ‘04. “This spring and summer will be an important time. Either they can lock these guys up and build around a core group of players, or you have to start over.”
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