Like others on the board, I too am excited about our smaller skilled prospects that seem to be developing well: Gaudreau, Baertchi, Granlund, and Byron.
Now that the playoffs have started, I'm reminded once again of the need to get bigger and nastier. A small/light skilled team may be able to position well to get a playoff spot, but there's no chance that a team this small will be able to crawl out of 4 gruelling playoff series.
Reality though is that by the time we are in contention again to do some damage in the playoffs, I strongly believe that there's only room for 1 or 2 on our roster regardless of how well we do in the regular season.
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