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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
It’s not that we need to add now to get better this season. It’s the fact that we’re just unlikely to crater barring some unforeseen injury so we should be prepared and open to alternative ways to build the team (including trading for a young or prime age #1 center, a rarely available asset).
Just because you nab Petterson (for example) doesn’t mean you kick out the training wheels and throw Wolf to the wolves. You still keep your development strategy going.
But the reality is that if Wolf stays on this trajectory it’s going to be very, very hard to get a lot worse as he continues to get better. Sure, Andersson getting traded hurts and some guys get older, but all it takes is having the younger guys take a step and you find yourself right back to where you are. It’s not like everyone is having a career year.
I think Zary, Wolf, Pospisil, and Coronato will all be better next year. Then you have wildcards in Parekh, Kerins, Honzek, Solo, etc that could pop. Plus you have Huberdeau finding his game again and a mountain of cap space that’s not just going to go completely unspent. Plus a great coach.
So maybe things so sideways and they fall off. But people have been predicting them to be worse than they are since the beginning of the season. Every week is just one week away from when the wheels start to fall off… unless they don’t.
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Do you see Huberdeau, Kadri, Coleman all getting better next season?
We can't let a fluke season blind us; this team will be bad next season. We have no elite talent coming in to make up for the drop in offence and prop up others around them.
We have no centers coming down the pipeline either, and I just don't see the goals in this lineup.