I kind of disagree about the line...
"the team’s very lean on NHL experience"
... I mean they're not the old guys that they were before but there's still a fair amount of guys with significant NHL experience that I wouldn't characterize it as "lean". I mean on left wing you have Sven and then the Next least experienced guy is TJ Galiardi with 4 year experience, on right wing I would say that there is no one I would project to make the team out of camp that lacks NHL experience, half the starting 6 on defense will be Wideman, Gio, and O'Brien (no lack of experience there). So basically the only area's the team actually has a lack of NHL experience will be center (where there is experience but it is lean) and goal (which has basically none).
It's one of the reasons I think the team will be more competitive then most give them credit for (they'll still stink but they'll be a draft 5th or 6th level of stink instead of draft 1st or 2nd level of stink). With four experienced guys on expiring contracts (and thus trade bait at the deadline) I expect 2014/2015 to be the year that we'll have an awful snot-nosed team of lean experience (Just in time for McDavid).
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