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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
The frustrating thing is that they could move a decent number of assets for young pieces and draft picks and give a decent jolt to the quality and quantity of young pieces 24 or younger in the organization. I thought BT went for it too early (Hamonic trade was awful) but he went for it and it did not work out.
But this off-season, if they are truly looking at their roster objectively, they should ask if they think they can truly compete with the following teams over the next two years
LA
Colorado
Dallas
Vegas
Edmonton
Minnesota
If the answer is objectively no to that list of teams and you are left fighting it out with Winnipeg, Seattle, Vancouver, Nashville for one of the two wild card positions what is the point? Make the playoffs and maybe hope to win one round. Nevermind the East where there are probably another 6-7 teams objectively better.
Trade all or most of your upcoming UFA’s over the summer or at the deadline. Set an organizational objective that you want draft picks or young impact players 24 or younger. Accept 24 months of being a bottom 10 team in the league and hope for a better, more sustainable team in 25/26 and beyond.
I am still convinced that moving Lindholm, Backlund, Tanev, Toffoli and Hanifin brings you back probably a combined 4-5 top 50 picks and 4-5 decent prospects 24 or younger. Add on the better picks you get over the next two years and you have the makings of a strong, young core in 25/26.
Since it seems so obvious to me it will never happen.
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I think wether they can compete with those teams over the next 2 years is subjective. Many think this is a good team as it's built.
The probelm is that it might not even be an option. The talking heads are saying there's a large group of the 2024 UFAs that are good as gone.
This team definitely can't compete without a lindholm, backlund, tanev and hanifin.
I agree it seems obvious. You have the opporttunity to kick off a reset in a major way. They need to take it. What Bean had to say doesn't give me much optimism though "wE hAvE a vEzINa GoAlIE"