The key is this team finally appears to be off the treadmill where they're not good enough to make the playoffs and not good enough to get a clear difference maker in the draft. This is the year to suffer. Short season, great prospects in the top 5, decent tradeable assets and an interesting summer with the cap lowering. I think there are going to be a lot of players on the market at the draft. This team can be in the mix as soon as next season if they play it right. That might be overly optimistic but I can see it happening if we load up on picks and prospects at the deadline and open up a ton of cap space
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