Backlund. That contract is already painful, and it's only going to get worse.
I'm perfectly willing to give Jonny and Monny another half-season under Sutter and then re-evaluate at the deadline. Gio has really come around since Sutter took over, and I don't see anyone else ready to fill his skates.
Backlund and Ryan need to go. That's almost $10M we're spending on our 3rd and 4th line centers.
All in all, I think the team has improved dramatically since Sutter took over, but we just lack the offensive horsepower to win games. We're keeping them to around 2 goals, but we're not scoring 3. The games that have gotten out of hand were the ones where we weren't scoring to support our D and had to start cheating to try and catch up.
We need to add a solid top-six RW. I can't believe how many times I've had to repeat this. We're spending almost $10M on our bottom two centers, and we don't have a single top-nine NHL RW in the entire organization. Yet, people think trading our #1 LW and #2 C is the answer to our problems.
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