The rebuild missed the mark IMO.
They're a competitive team but not a true contender. They have lots of good players, but the elite aren't quite elite enough and they're certainly not elite down the middle where they need to be.
Plus they don't have a true #1 Dman who can take over a game. Gio is too old, and while Hanifin, Andersson and Valimaki are good young dmen, none of them are elite #1s yet and may never reach that level either.
Oh, Treliving also never hired an elite coach either.
They won't blow it up though. Going to tinker around the edges hoping to catch lightning in a bottle one year before the main core is all either too old, too expensive or gone altogether.
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