Are we seeing the beginnings of a fire sale?

Look, I’m a fan, and I’d love to see the boys stay around for years and years to come, but part of me thinks that reaching that magic number of 14,000 in average game attendance is just not realistic.  Let’s all be realists for a moment: As a good friend of mine just pointed out, we couldn’t hit that goal with Forsberg and Kariya on the ice and with the entire town talking about contending for the cup, so why do we think we can do it now?  Do we need Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux to come out of retirement to don the blue and gold?