I could easily stomach a rebuild. At the same time, it just doesn’t feel necessary to me yet. It’s still a relatively young team with a lot of potential and enough assets to retool with. Lindholm has been a bright spot. Mangiapane, Dube, Tkachuk, Andersson, Hanifin, Valimaki, all have room to take a step. We have some prospects that could make noise. I think you mix up the leadership group, focus on complementing the guys I specifically mentioned, and see what happens. I’d be fine with parting with Treliving if we miss the playoffs and see what someone else can do with it before burning it to the ground (and I would not want him handling the rebuild anyway).
I know a couple people are whining about the “one more year” thing, but really, Markstrom had a bad year and Sutter came in half way. Acting like “one more year” is a cliche just ignores the actual changes that occur between the times those things are said. We should at least have a better idea if either of those things were worthwhile changes after next year. We just don’t know yet.
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