Quoting: Subbanator7667
Love this strategy. Keep it simple, no big trades for a forward, no FA signings, just let the youth play their way up.
Next season you're likely looking at another top 10 pick to add to the core, they'll have like 20+ million in cap space with limited players to resign and there's a much better FA agent market next season to spend money on
exactly, guys like Dvorak, Armia, Anderson and Gallgher are likely gonna cost us to dump them, but there's no rush to do so, most of our forward prospects are still a year or more away from being ready, and the last thing that we want to have happen is we sign a free agent or a few that end up being in the same boat as Anderson and Gallagher are in now, overpaid with term, and this years FA class for forwards is basically Guentzel, Reinhart, Lindholm, and a bunch of older guys looking to win a cup or get one last big contract, not quite what Montreal need, and while a lot of these guys won't hit the market next summer, Marner, Rantanen, Draisaitl, Crosby, Verhaeghe, Konecny, Boeser, Buchnevich, Sharangovich, Ehlers, etc. are all potential free agents next summer, a way larger group than what's available this year