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Originally Posted by butterfly
The runners up for two of the most major individual trophies in the league are on the team.
We can argue about their performance this season, but there are definitely players capable of being stars on the team.
Unrelated, but $1.3M for Kevin Rooney for this year and next? What in his past suggested he was worth $500k more than Trevor Lewis? And now he's getting 8:53 a game. I would have rather rolled the dice on one of the Wranglers and pocketed the cap savings for a deadline deal.
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Markstrom is the worst starting goalie in the league. Goaltending is a highly volatile position. He is not star. He has a long history of inconsistent play.
Lindholm was up for the Selke based on a season when he was playing with two of the best wingers in the entire league and they were out-scoring the opposition when they were on the ice at a pace unseen in what? 30 years? He also has a career worth of years prior to that where this wasn't the case.
One-off years are just that.
Sutter even nails this again tonight in the post-game presser and tells Wes "you're going places you shouldn't be going - we had three 40 goal scorers last year. This is a different operation." in reference to "difference makers" on this team this season. Darryl is fully aware that this team is under-skilled.