Quoting: V123
Hey it’s Boston. Sure their prospect pool is pretty bad, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Sweeney moved a first for a centre to continue being competitive.
Perhaps.
My suggestion would be pulling a 2015 again. One year retool to stockpile on things.
That core is not good enough and I think they know it too. I would take the pending UFAs they have and turn them into prospect/draft capital later down the line and hope they fall into the bottom-10 - that way they can keep their 2024 1st and get a good prospect.
After that, full send on the UFA market to bring in a proper 1C for 2024-25, whether it's Lindholm, Scheifele, Stamkos...there's plenty of better options in there than there is now, and now that their core is renewing anyway with Bergeron/Krejci retiring they got time to build again.
Selling DeBrusk, Ullmark, Grzelcyk for draft capital could end up being extremely valuable for them, as long as they don't f*ck up with the drafting again, similar to how they did in 2015.