Ugh. I was hoping to wake up and find out that the Hemsky reports I read yesterday were just a nightmare....but nope. Haha.
I don't want him, I actually think Hemsky is the opposite direction this team needs to go. Same with Briere.
The Sens are gonna be fine next year. This is a young team that just becausse they have suprised everyone and made the playoffs two years ago when everything went right and then this season, advanced even further when everything went wrong, this is still a team that is going into year 3 of a planned rebuild/retool. Adding players like Hemsky/Briere is just going to up the chances of last season happening again. No thanks. Let the young guys develop with the same leadership of Alfie/Phillips/Neil/Anderson and Spezza. There is not a chance in hell that the Sens have a league worst 7% scoring percentage. Last season was just a comedy of errors and they still took huge strides forward.
I started ranting again, my main point, no to Hemsky.
Love him. Love his two-way game which kept him in the lineup all season and love his release. Shootouts are always a treat to watch him beat the best in the world. People always compare him to Zibanejad and I have no clue why, they are almost 3 years apart and completely different players. Silfverberg is a proven winner and thinks the game so well. It is way to early for even the fan in me to even mention the word superstar, but I know he will be in this league for as long as he wants to be. Is Loui Eriksson a superstar in your mind? That is my best guess on what I hope he becomes.