[Cali Panthers Fan]

This only made sense. You need to see progression from young players under a coach and it didn't really happen with Horachek, or any other recent coach in Florida. With Trotz available you need to make a serious push for him. At the very least he will make the team competitive so they aren't a joke of a franchise. Tallon is a decent GM, the ownership just changed to the Violas, and while the sons are probably not ideal choices to be part of the executive group, it stands that he is willing to put money into the team to make it competitive and believes he can build the organization to become a winning one.

The cupboards are full in Florida, and it's also one of the deepest teams at center for prospects. Still needs an elite defensive prospect, but I have a feeling they will make a push to sign one or trade for one soon. They had the most cap space of any team this season and the only UFAs that are leaving are Winchester, Scott Gomez (blech), Krys Barch, and Tom Gilbert, so nothing that isn't replaceable. They have a young core of forwards in Barkov, Huberdeau, Bjugstad, and now Pirri that are already playing pretty well in the NHL. They have Campbell and Jovanovski as the old guard defenders, but Gudbranson and Kulikov are young quality players that have already played a lot of games in the NHL, and then add in the emergence of Dylan Olsen and Alex Petrovic, they could have a good core of defenders going forward. Luongo came back and instantly stabilizes the goaltending situation for now and a good amount of years going forward.

They get a good coach that can take all the pieces and make a cohesive unit, they could be very dangerous. Remember, they won their division not 2 years ago. They could turn it around the way Tampa Bay did this year.