I am curious what type of plan pivot that Conroy is selling to ownership and what they will sign off on?
Will the team take the Ottawa route of trying to strip it all down to the studs and build it back up? Ottawa is in year 6 of their rebuild and need to get on a heater to get back in the race.
I think what we know now- the 4 pending UFA’s are going to be traded and not resigned. Do they go all futures? Realistically they could have 3 1st and 3 2nds going into next years draft and if they make all of those selections they could jump into the top 5-10’ teams in terms of prospect ranking. I do think Markstrom could be a guy with term that moves this season as well especially if he keeps his play up.
Right now see them keeping Kadri, Huberdeau, Backlund, Coleman, Andersson, Weegar. If they really want to strip it down they should consider moving Andersson since he can bring back an actual haul. If they go this route it is hard to see this team turning things around in 3 years. Talking about where they were in 2013 they legitimately had a defensive pair that would lead the league in analytics with Brodie-Gio and they were a top pair in year 1 of the rebuild. Weegar-Andersson are not on that level but still a very good pair. If they want to turn it around quicker they will hold onto both of those guys.
The Wranglers continue to be an absolute top team in the AHL so maybe many still underrate their prospect base considering they picked up where they left off with Love leaving and even when Wolf doesn’t play they are lighting it up.
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