Gonna give it a 7 for the following reasons:
- Shipping out / shopping all the correct vets so far (even ones with term remaining)
- Didn't publicly announce a rebuild or that they're mailing the season in
- Starting to give the kids some more responsibility and ice time
- Drafting prospects who shoot first (with a wicked shot too!) and ask questions later
- Good young pieces in place already
- Collecting quality draft capital (consistently picking 3 times in the first two rounds in the past couple drafts and the next couple upcoming drafts too, sometimes even with two 1sts)
Especially that last part, if Connie & scouts can homerun on even half of those extra 1sts then we should have a good core for years to come. Gridin and Parekh look decent already playing NHL minutes, Reschny and Potter are doing very good in college. Even have Wyttenbach who's looking like a late round steal.