After sleeping on it I am feeling more than comfortable with the trade.
It’s not perfect, but we got some quality assets considering Conroy’s hands were tied by Brisson.
The biggest takeaway for me is that the page has officially been turned from the Treliving era. The UFA crop is all gone and the direction of this team hasn’t been this crystal clear in decades.
We have our vets signed long term for the rebuild in Huberdeau, Kadri, Coleman, and Weegar. A good crop of players to enforce good habits and instill a strong culture on the young players, but not good enough to keep us away from some high draft picks.
We have our “mid term” players that will likely be gone before we are competitive again and can be used to get future assets in Markstrom, Mangiapane, Vladar, Kuzmenko, Sharangovich, Miromanov.
We have a fairly solid prospect base coming up (lacking blue chip pieces though) in Zary, Coronato, Pelletier, Honzek, Pospisil, Wolf, Poirer, Brz, Grushnikov, Morin.
And finally we have some draft capital. Two firsts this year, two firsts next year, and a bunch of extra mid round picks. You can never have enough and I would love for them to get another first for Markstrom considering we have incentive to bad next season.
Time for our scouting staff to earn their keep and swing for the fences. Long shot, but a little lottery luck would be huge for this franchise too. We are certainly due for a bit of that.
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