Quoting: Adambuffalo
This has so many problems. Johansen at $8m to be your 3C in two years is not the guy to go after.
Assuming neither Cozens nor Mitelstadt is on the roster at the start of this year kinda rules out their being ready for $2 C in 2021-2022.
Quoting: Adambuffalo
We've got no line to match up with anyone's top line defensively, and no PK unit and definitely no 2nd PK line.
You have that now? I've only left Girgensons and Larsson off the roster you have this season, and there's one forward slot open, plus the rookies probably won't be on the big club at the start.
Quoting: Adambuffalo
Defense and goaltending is no better.
You didn't really expect to cure your #2 C vacancy, improve the defense and get a real goaltender all at once, did you? Take away Johansen's $8 million and invest it in Lehner or Markstrom and how much are you going to have to spend elsewhere? Patience is a virtue, and Rome wasn't built in a day. I have some other clichés if you need a few.
Quoting: Adambuffalo
There won't be enough money to sign our good RFAs.
Now
that's an accurate objection, In addition to Dahlin and Jokiharju, the fact that I've signed Olofsson to a one-year show-me deal isn't as brilliant as I originally thought.