Quoting: SomeonesOffended
They aren’t better not even close
A top 6 center who is good both ways, who dealt with injuries last year but scored 34 the year prior and makes $1.7 mil
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A puck retrieval winger who can compliment our top 6 and who has the potential to pot 20 goals (basically a more talented acciari)
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A 27 year old D with size who was playing top pair alongside spurgeon on one of the best defensive teams in the league.
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An expiring forward who has little chemistry with our 11 mil dollar center, resulting in us paying 2 forwards making 19 mil combined to play on our de facto 3rd line. The result? He posts the worst goal differential of all skaters and is the 5th best forward in the playoffs at best (Matthews, Marner, ROR, Knies). Oh, and he wants 9+ until he's 36.
Let's just pretend we're not over the cap, bump Kampf up to 3C, ignore replacing any of the D we lost from an already awful D core, and go win one game in round two over his next contract as well!