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Originally Posted by transplant99
But the UFA RW's available this year are, at best, a very weak group.
Palmieri and then a whole lot of....no thanks.
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Could look to Nashville. Arvidsson and Jarnkrok? Hyman is also a UFA isn’t he? Could he be a good signing?
The team as a whole is in a weird spot. How do they become more competitive this coming year? Even if we do manage to pull in Eichel for Tkachuk + 1st + Zary, the gaps left in the roster up front are still sizeable without a clear path to correcting it…unless you double down even further and are willing to leverage the future more?
Spend futures and build a roster worth actually maintaining and then worry about maintaining it at a future date? Or just shuffle along hoping we hit a home run and find a gem in the mid part of the draft?
If the core up front is Eichel, Gaudreau, Lindholm, Monahan and Mangiapane…I think that’s pretty good, and may even be good enough assuming you can actually win some of those trades where you leverage the future. The biggest problem this team has is that they leveraged the future on absolute loser trades. Elliott, Lazar, Hamonic - they all did nothing/underperformed here, and are gone.