I think the team is heading for a retool. No way ownership agrees to a scorched rebuild so soon after the last one. Even that one took years to convince ownership to get on board. And that was with nothing in the pipelines and a bunch of aging vets.
While the core of this team has proven to be no good as a whole, they are still good players on their own, young and on good contracts. The main difference this time vs 2013 is that the team actually has good assets to retool this time. I have no doubt one or both of Johnny/Mony are traded for a comparable roster player or high picks. I could see Gio sticking around for some leadership stability. The team also has some great young and upcoming D and a few decent young forwards. The 2013 rebuild was just junk being given away for free essentially. This time there is actually assets to play around with.
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