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Originally Posted by dammage79
Yeah I think we could call it fine tuning. There's soft spots in the top 6 FW group they could swap around. And 1 top line player has a cascading effect down the line up as it pushes other players into more acute spots for their talents.
I.e sign Marner and Pospisil is shuffled down to the 4th line.
He doesn't need to be in the top 9 to be effective for his talents.
And even then I believe they can make trades with other forwards to bring a bit more scoring.
The forward group needs work. We have some good kids coming along and some vets who are on the wrong side of the peak in Backlund andaybe Coleman.
Sprinkle on top of that some added offense from BRZ and Parekh in the very near future it's pretty easy to see team offense improving immediately if they signed one top line player.
Which makes think about a potential Andersson trade, what's their real.goal terms of what they get back for him? More futures?
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I agree with the premise that we need a top line player right away. However, I really believe that the focus has to be on a #1C. There are solid winger and D prospects in the system that can start graduating but a #1C is required to bump Kadri, Frost, and Backlund down the lineup.
Center depth is much more the critical path of the team than bringing in Marner to push Pospisil down to the 4th line. Coronato, Gridin, and Klapka will potentially do that in the next couple of seasons anyway.
If we get a #1C prospect that needs time to develop then you can start out this season with Kadri, Frost, Backlund, Zary, <Prospect>. Then let the prospect pass each of the other centers as they develop. The goal would be to get the C group to look like this in a couple of seasons: <Prospect>, Frost, Kadri, Zary.
To answer the other question, all of our trade assets and draft capital need to be pointed at one thing, acquiring that future #1C. Tanking to draft that player might be the most straightforward way to get that, but trading for the pick/player is the other way to go. At this point of the retool we should identify a handful of assets that are untradable (Wolf, Parekh, Coronato, 2026 1st, 2027 1st) and then figure out how to utilize everything else to get that needed top line C.
I would hope that it is as simple as the Sharks wanting assets we have available like Andersson to get the job done. Failing that, maybe a Burke style multi-trade to climb up the draft.