Give this man an extension. His biggest weakness is Free agency but his trades, RFA signings have been elite while his drafting has been promising (Bennett, Andersson, Kylington, Mangiapane, Tkachuk, Valimaki, Dube) all playing with the big team this year.
One thing I was a little worried about with this team was the lack of high picks coming out of the rebuild. Only picked 4th once and 6th twice. The Hamilton trade this summer brought in 2 more 5th overall guys from the start of the rebuild. It is amazing that we got the 2015 playoff run, which included a round 1 win against the Canucks, and then still wind up with Noah Hanifin is unreal.
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