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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
I'm kind of reevaluating who I think the core of this team is, and it's all coming up Milhouse.... er, defensemen.
Gio
Hanafin
Valimaki
Kylington
Andersson
Tkachuk
Lindholm
and Monahan gets extra points for being a glue guy. But I'm warming to Johnny moving to Philly, and I feel pretty bad about that. Literally everyone else is looking like filler to me.
I exclude prospects. Horde prospects.
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Honestly Bennett not panning out really ####ed everything up with the potential of the roster in this window. Monahan isn't the type of player to carry the team, and Gaudreau is too small/weak to be able to do it himself. Johnny is great, but he can be a complimentary player at most for a team that's gonna make noise.
We're gonna really find out what this team is made out of here. This may be the season/off season that you strongly do consider trading Gaudreau and/or Monahan since they aren't the pieces for a championship team, and need to make moves to draw in players that will be down the road.
Hopefully it doesn't come to that, and the top players on the team start actually performing like they did in the first half of last season. Lindholm can't be the only one, and Tkachuk is gonna have the prototypical 'off season' following the training camp holdout. (Although points wise, he hasn't been that bad)