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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Based on that and what is basically a 30 point improvement in a year where a huge chunk of your offense is based on one line and your goalie basically puts up godzilla smashing tokyo type perfoprmances, and you have very few significant injuries, and on top of that a quarter of your games involve teams playing the second half of their back to back.
Even the eye test is 70's WWE like, when McDavid is out your team looks credible when your other lines are out your team looks like the same dead team as years past.
Also in terms of cap crunch, you're going to be pretty much out of the free agent game for a while and you're going to have to trade depth for cap space and you don't have much coming up from your farm to fill that depth thanks to a decade worth of pretty much atrocious drafting after round one.
This is it for your team, unsustainable a flukey bump in the road and then a scream of torpedoes in the water and then glug glug.
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Spot on. What has made Chicago so successful is drafting and developing very good players outside of the lottery and then when said players are due for a significant raise Bowman is a master of acquiring cheaper players with high potential and seamlessly integrating them into the team. Charelli has a history of overpaying players and then having to trade other players with high cap hits for pennies on the dollar (being a desirable destination for guys like Panarin doesn't hurt either). There's a reason the Bruins only won one cup in Charelli's tenure and that he was fired less than 2 years after winning the cup.
Johnny Boychuk for two seconds and a third. Ouch.
Dougie Hamilton for 3 picks (I realize that it was Sweeney who traded him but his hand was forced by Charelli's roster moves).
Seguin/Peverley/Button for Eriksson/Morrow/Smith/Fraser. Barf.
Khudobin for Penner. Cringe.
Colborne/1st for Kaberle. Brutal.