Agreed it probably will be an underwhelming offseason

Especially after the comments made from Stillman on 101 yesterday

I'm ok with a boring offseason. This likely is the last season that the krug and faulk contracts are unmovable, as the full NTC's end after this coming season. Stillman has never been fond of retaining bad contracts, so that seems unlikely. Keep in mind the blues are a rather small market team so retaining salary via buyout or long term contracts is rather unusual. An in house development focused offseason is for the best. It's nice to hear they have a plan and are sticking to it. I'd personally love to see if the can snag DP57 for a year or two as well. I think once these prospects start to produce, this team will see even more improvement. Realistically the only thing thats gonna hold this team back going forward are those awful deals given to krug, faulk, and schenn

Heh. Two boring offseasons in a row from Army? Surely you gents jest.

It might be as simple as incorporating kids as the older/longer term bad deals drop off one by one. This offseason Scandella/Kapanen/Vrana. Next summer Buchnevich (I love him but c'mon, we need to get assets and trade him at the deadline) and then 1 year left for Saad and Leddy, with their contracts switching from full NTC's to partials. Also 2 years left for Krug and Faulk and their contracts switch over to partials as well.

It's going to take time. This sucks. There's no 2 ways around it. I hope we stockpile enough picks and prospects that the team will be more than average once the kids get up and in.