Unfortunately, this club has not shown much improvement since last season, even with a goaltending ‘upgrade’ and with all the big guns in the line-up (although it hasn’t been often). Michalek is the youngest of our top-end talent at 25, which is not as young as most other teams who are competing in the league. (Heatley would not have made a difference on the record that much either). Younger, quality players are being brought into the league earlier and bringing success. I think this team’s time has passed by, hopefully something that Murray has realized. I am a fan of Murray, however, looking at the competition, Ottawa is surely not set up to win a cup any time in the future with Spezza as our top-line centre and Michalek as our premier goal-scorer (assuming Alfie retires in the next couple years at his contract’s conclusion). Ottawa needs to make some good moves, drafts, and hopefully some good luck to bring it along. Wouldn’t it be great if Ottawa had a goaltending draft pick that worked out?