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Originally Posted by bax
Development isn’t linear. I don’t think any team that lost 35 of their 56 games is close to being a contender. Their vets are still doing most of the heavy lifting too.
Tons of room for improvement for sure, but a long ways to go still. I don’t think Turcotte has come along as nicely as they would have hoped either.
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They just added arvidsson for picks and still have $15 mil in cap space and a full roster. They could make a run at Hamilton or another top ufa and fill their roster with the plethora of young talent they have in the system. Reminds me of when they were loaded with young prospects and weren’t a great team and added carter and Richards and won 2 cup like real fast after those deals
Brown and kopitar are free agents before they need to resign they young guys too. Kopitar will resign for cheap. They might be a contender this year if they get someone good this summer
They could still get Eichel just don’t think they should trade their top prospects to get him
If byfield and turcotte turn out close to what they supposed to be guys like doughty and kopitar are still stars