Stockton remains second in their division despite 4 prospects making a successful transition to Flames club!
Prospect pool deep especially on defense and goal.
Just need a sniper right shot winger.
We have a backup goalie!
Jagr the teacher! His video teaching Bennett remains my favourite of the year.
Janko/Bennett third line chemistry could make line matching a nightmare for other teams. They will only get better...
Cap management for at least next 2 years under control with core to remain intact. Cap structure sound with appropriate proportion of dollars spread amongst forwards, defense and goalies groupings.
Johhny, Mony under contract for 5 more years in our current contender window.
Suspect we have seen the peak of selling picks for top9F, top4D, 1G players to round out our team for this contender window.
We will soon start to collect picks again as we trade from positional strength in order to retool on the fly to prolong our current contender window. One or two of our top 4D likely to be traded for picks or right shot sniper within 2-3 years as D prospects emerge. Valimaki and at least one of Kylington/Anderson/Fox trending to be top 4 material.
BT is a wizard and the most hard working GM in the game regardless of what some CP posters says. We wont get everything right (Raymond, Brouwer, Elliott) but so many solid moves (Rittich, Hamilton, Stone, Frolik, Smith).
I think the negative shift in tone on CP this year is simply extremely high expectations since we know the ship has a great captain and should be at full steam ahead by now! Its just taking a bit longer for those engines to warm up. As Burkie says. You have walk before you run!
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