Quoting: Xqb15a
The additions outside of Marner are either expensive, overrated, or over the hill. Any team that has Turris, Jack Johnson and OEL In prominent roles while also expecting guys like DuClair, Branstrom, and Brown to take the next step isn’t a contender. OTT needs to stay the course, use the draft capital they have accumulated and let the existing prospects continue to develop not spend a bunch of money and draft capital to become a maybe playoff team.
Panik's straight fire. Way underpaid. Poor man's Coleman. You must be thinking of some other players I added. So let's go through them.
Johnson's old and slow, and overpaid based on draft position from when he used to have some offensive skill back in the '90s or something, but he's reliable in his own end for 19:30 a night, and Ottawa needs exactly that, just as badly as Pittsburgh needs 3M in cap space.
Maniscalco's a prospect in college, so he isn't old or expensive. No one has heard of him, so he isn't overrated, either.
Ekman-Larsson just posted his best plus/minus in seven years. It hurt his offense. I think he should go back to playing offense, at that cap hit. Don't you?
Leddy is ancient and was never defensively sound, but he was really good in the playoffs this year somehow, and I think he really wants to win a Cup, and can still be decent when he really tries. NYI need cap space and would love to give him away for free to a team that has a spot for him to play, and Ottawa has that.
Kerfoot stinks. That's a cap dump for Toronto. But a big chunk of his pay is an offseason signing bonus, so he comes out fair-priced for the first season.
Marner's $700k from July to June. Then either they flip him for about a 10th overall and some prospects, or the franchise attracts additional investors with deeper pockets in order to keep him.
https://www.capfriendly.com/players/mitchell-marner
Andersen, Turris, and Georgiev are the question marks, but in an earlier comment, a Rangers fan said Anismov could fetch half-priced Lundqvist, who is not a question mark. So I think this team contends for a year, then flips Marner next June, and only pays Marner and Andersen a combined $1.7M for the year.
Can you honestly think of a reason they shouldn't do that? Marner and Andersen for $1.7M for a year, for a top pick, but then they get to trade Marner away next summer, for another decent pick. Seems like a good idea to me.
Quoting: alpine4life
This is a big No! from the Sens on all point of views... Melnyk and Dorion stated on multiple occasions that they would go for a rebuild the old way and that they would keep #3 & #5 to anchor that rebuild. And with a draft similar to 2003 for 2022, you may want to be patient with your "contending stuff"
And FYI this team still aint contending. The only two players that I'd want in there would be Panik and Georgiev. We need to find some centers more that wingers.
https://i.redd.it/nksnnt34rpo41.jpg
Even if they finish last, their odds of winning the draft lottery again are like, half, and the odds that player is actually as good as Crosby are like, a quarter. So you multiply those together and you come up with: Marner immediately helps this team make the playoffs, sell tickets, get games televised, and start making money.