SalarySwishSalarySwish
Avatar

qc14

Membre depuis
2 sept. 2020
Équipe favorite
Capitals de Washington
Deuxième équipe favorite
Sharks de San Jose
Messages dans les forums
3286
Messages par jour
2.5
Forum: Armchair-GMil y a 18 heures
Forum: Armchair-GMil y a 19 heures
Sujet: Washington Retool
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Logicalicesports</b></div><div>Understandable, I do not think we will be competing next season at all to start. Mestis isn't great but its still pretty good. If he can make the jump to Liiga next season and do what he did in Mestis I would say he needs to be on the roster ASAP. I think the goal should be much younger than this season. But who knows maybe we do need to more or less firesale the entire roster and start over.</div></div>

I don't think we need to firesale the entire roster (in large part because they basically have 2.5 appealing assets between Dowd, Lindgren, and Jensen) and while we certainly have lots of old players this year we also have a large quantity of young guys playing or slated to play big roles next year in McMichael, Lapierre, Protas, Miro, Sandin, Fehervary, and even AA.

The problem IMO is that neither amongst our group of old players nor in the group of young players is there a skater who legitimately can make a claim to being top 32 in their position besides Carlson. To either compete next year OR to continue to retool OR to fully rebuild you need to be able to have truly elite talent. That was the logic behind rolling the dice with Kuzy and Backstrom this year even if the odds they'd return to that level were incredibly slim, and why I'm so bummed Leonard isn't signing. I like Girard and Knight a lot as players but I don't think either of them have that potential. If you're going for a "continue to transition around Ovi while not truly tanking" strategy (which is the right one to take!) I think they need to take some bigger risks. Guys like Laine, Zegras, Norris, PLD all have bigger downsides and a Konecny, Thomas, or Chabot will have a much larger acquisition cost but I think you have to be operating on those levels to pull this off successfully even if there's a risk it doesn't work out.