No point of watching these idiots until January

I hear you guys on Staal. Only thing I'm wondering a little bit is if he's sucking right now trying to do too much with the pressure of his contract situation similar to hank and our former captain last year. To me he is still a solid 2nd pair defenseman who plays a lot of minutes. I agree 6 mill is more than we'd like to see but that seems to be the prevailing rate now so we'll have to see how things shake out. As for trading him we do not have great depth on D right now as skjei is at least a year or 2 away so who exactly is going to take staal's minutes and might I remind everyone this is a team that is gonna contend for the cup this season and not necessarily looking to dump salary at this goals expense. Staal has always been one of my favorite players (first round pick home grown and all that jazz) and at 28 he's still young enough to get past these injuries and back to playing at a level where he's a big asset to the team.