Cap space has no indication of where a rebuild is. Look at the leafs, they took on short term bad contracts and traded long term bad contracts. They don't have much room and they are still very much rebuilding(there defensive line looks weak) imo.
For me, the roster changes are somewhat irrelevant. We made changes/improvements to last seasons roster and it didn't make much difference. We'll improve, hard not to given all our woes last season. But how much we improve and how long we improve for is mostly down to GG and his coaching staff. If they can find a style of play that suits the group we have but isn't a gung ho, defensively unstable style, we could improve in a big way. If the coaching staff find a way to get our PP/PK to improve, then we'll improve. If they can get consistent efforts out of most of the guys, then we'll improve.
But I'm not reading anything into the roster changes because if GG and the new coaches are a disaster behind the bench, then adding Tkachuk, Brouwer, Elliott etc, might count for very little.
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