Rejoint: mai 2019
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many schools of thought here and here's mine OP, and your slightly off base....
Schmidt will me 33 at the time of his expiry and at $6m he will be fine. Edler/Myers will be 36 and at $6m, those contracts will not age well.
Holtby will be fine, reason for regression is easily searched on google, his goalie coach, KORN, left the on ice job for an office job, then left for the lslanders with Trotz. Those 3 years his numbers went down. Ian Clark, the Cancuks goalie coach is the same level as korn and will turn Holtby around. Some players need that constant coaching. trick is that Clark is re-signed.
Markstrom and Tanev are horrible deals in terms of money and term, Leivo will not be the same player, he was already slow[ish], he will be slower. Toffoli would have been signed if it werent for the covid flat cap era, but at 4 years and the uncertainty of even next year with no fans, what happens if the league says, nope cant do a flat cap, we have to lower the cap, wheres the money for EP/QH, etc?
which leads me to the kids proving themselves. a shorten, compacted schedule is a perfect scenario for Lind, MacEwen, OJ, Rathbone, Rafferty, Hoglander to show what they have, its not writing off the season but it is assessing what they have, who to protect in expansion, who to expose, who gets resigned, and who is worthy of going on this 8+++ year run with Pettersson and Hughes.