Hello everyone, first time poster, long time lurker here.
2 last offseasons have been pretty abysmal, I would go back to the McDonagh being traded and the 3 young guys (Cirelli, Cernak, Sergachev) being paid with the raise. Palat leaving was right choice and good for Drej, he got his payday. Same thing with Killorn.
Now the situation is that we brought back McDonagh and are opting to trade one or maybe two guys of the trio, which seems pretty odd from long-time strategy view point. I believe bringing McDonagh back was the right call though and he should help with the defensive zone problems. This team has couple years left to make some noise in the playoffs so I don't think they should cling on to younger guys just because they are "young".
Improving offense depth should be the priority this summer, so I would first look for options to trade Serg/Cernak, preferably Sergy as we are short on RD options. The Jeannot experiment should also be ditched and save what you can from that trade. I like Cirelli's game despite his contract and thus I would trade him as the last option. If he can put up 50 points in a season he should be fine contract value wise.
With the cap space we should probably get Stammer with around 6.5 mil per year and another top 6 forward. I don't expect huge return from the trades, but low cap hit bottom 6 forwards wouldn't be bad additions.
