Quoting: justaBoss
Yes it is. That defense is trash.
When you have to rely top4 minutes of Luke Schenn and Travis Dermott your team has a problem worth fixing. Demko alone can only do so much.
Offensively speaking the team is also worse. You don't have Miller to score those 90 points. Zucker and Chytil add 20 points each.
This is a bottom-5 team.
And btw I don't think anyone accepts these proposals. DAL has better use for that money, rentals don't gather out such packages and no one wants OEL.
The defense isn't trash, you underestimate how good Luke Schenn is, and how much potential guys like Rathbone and Lundkvist have. Obviously with Dermott on the 2nd pair the team can't have Stanley cup aspirations, but clearly I'm not trying to be all that ambitious here
Pettersson, Hughes, and Podkolzin will all take steps next season (at least they should), and guys like Boeser, Hoglander, and Dickinson should bounce back. This team won't underachieve the way they did this last season, and it's not like I'm running things back here
When it comes to Chytil and Zucker, there are still good players in them, just haven't been optimal fits with their current teams
Bottom line is, as long as this roster has Pettersson, Hughes, and Demko, they will NEVER be bad enough to be bottom five
You are so so wrong on so many levels