Considering they had 98 points with thus team, and missing Vasy and Serg for considerable stretches, pretty likely as long as a couple of solid depth adds are made. With a healthy Vasy all year,.they probably have close to 110 points this season.
can we count on kucherov carrying us like that again? of course, there can be improvements elsewhere to hepl the load, but i dont have faith in jbb
I have a bad feeling that we fall to about 87-90 points, miss the playoffs, and give the Predators the 13th pick.
While the Colton trade made some sense, it opened up a huge hole that Sheary obviously didn't replace. Watch BriseBois trade Paul for a nice return, but it only opens up another hole that we can't replace easily.
not necessarily
i haven't taken a super close look to this years class yet
Duke should be capable of being a 20-20 guy in the league if he continues to develop. He grew every year in terms of production, skating, all around game in the NCAA at Michigan. Probably won't ever be the ceiling of player, but could fit the Killorn role.
Also, the over priced vet comment makes no sense. I don't know if you noticed but the vets (Stamkos, Hedman) were our best forward and dman in this series. Their next contracts they will make even less. That's the bargain out there.
Even if Kuch doesn't have 140+ points again, there is more than enough to make the playoffs. Again, if Vasy and Serg were healthy all year, Tampa finishes 2nd at worst in the division and maybe wins it. They had 3 guys score 40+ and 7 hit 20+. If JBB clears out the dead weight contracts, re-signs Stamkos plus one other upgrade at F and on D, the team will be fine barring some other set of crippling injuries. Trading any of the young big name rfa's makes little sense unless they're getting a top 4 dman that coats less than Cirelli and has term, or a top 6 F and top 4 dman(and then they'd need another high quality RD as well) that costs less than or equal.to both Cirelli and Cernak. Trading either for futures is a terrible blunder unless those picks/prospects are immediately used to acquire the "upgrades" that are replacing them.
My overpriced comment was meant for who you mentioned. And I would hesitantly include Paul in that mix.
I agree with all of that. Cernak most likely moved, but our defensive depth is already so bad. Could we get two solid dmen for his cap hit? I really doubt it. There's just no good way out of this unless JBB hits some home runs and my confidence is low on that.
Yeah I think Point was the biggest surprise all year. I almost hope that there was an injury or something there that would explain why his play fell off so bad this year. He used be so good with the zone entries and now he just carries it to the wall where it gets poke checked away every time. Maddening.
Yeah if it was as simple as letting Stamkos go means we can build a contender, then sure, but that's not really on the table is it? We swung and missed on Hanifin, which was probably our best chance at doing something big like that to retool. I dunno. Do folks see any other big moves like that? Because toying around at the edges with Stamkos' money isn't it. We gotta do something crazy like Vegas, except we don't have the assets to...
It's rather simple to be honest. Brisebois just needs to not f*** around and let his pride get the best of him.
