Scoring hasn't been much of a problem I don't think... and we still have James Neal to get going. That's pretty exciting IMO.
I also don't worry about the cap too much. I think Tre has earned quite a bit of respect for what he does with contracts, and we have a good handful of outs to get it done. He's definitely not going to be blindsided trying to sign Tkachuk and a goalie, but I'll bet he'd love to do it without losing much more than Stone.
Neal was signed knowing that Tkachuk was coming up, we have no NHL goalies under contract, and with hope that Tkachuk would be playing his way to a big contract. There's a plan, and I'd be shocked if there aren't a litany of backup plans.
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