Dear Mr. Nill,
Can I call you Jim? I don’t want to be presumptuous or anything, but I feel like we’ve been through some stuff together. Good stuff (the Tyler Seguin trade, Jamie Benn’s Art Ross), not so good stuff (the 2016-2017 season), and some weird stuff (Jiri Hudler’s unfortunate illness - seriously, did he go on a cruise pre-season?). Anyways, this isn’t a letter about how far we’ve come, it’s a letter about where we’re going. Really, it’s me begging you to do something at this year’s trade deadline.
Hear me out.
I get that deadline shopping is often expensive, and that you’re (mostly) picking through assets that are declining, over-priced, or possibly both.