Quoting: GuentzelvaniaUSA
I think it’s pretty outrageous to suggest those two players are having similar career trajectories. Puustinen absolutely has a chance to make the bottom six next year if he doesn’t end up staying this year.
Nylander will never be a bottom six nhl player. He just won’t
True, but is it a win to finally have a young guy, pusstinen, break though in bottom 6?
When all of the impact players are early/mid to late 30s, you'd hope a poulin, pusttinen, poj breakthrough to top 6/top 4. The idea that youre going to get better results as an old team gets older is crazy.
I mean the johnssons, nietos, acciaris, carters, harkins, jonhstones, ellers, etc... are all part of this older/journeymen/never weres bottom 6 rotation they have going to cover the fact they have little hope/faith in poulins, pusstinen. It'd be great to think that with rackell struggling that pusttinen breaks through, but even in the roster above you have signed poulin and pust to just 800k for 1 yr, and placed them outside the starting 12, so even you have little faith in them