Speculation: 2024-2025 General Lightning Discussion II: New year, same Cooper shell

[nhljohnson]

Can JBB win what I'd imagine would be quite the bidding war? I dunno, but I'd like to see him try. Andersson would be a savvy addition for the short- and long-term.

I was thinking about Andersson a bit this morning and it could actually be a super savvy move if the cap has the bigger than expected jump that EF is reporting. You could essentially build 3 very solid 2-way pairs of:
Moser - Andersson
McDonagh - Cernak
Hedman - Raddysh

Which would allow us to give Hedman more sheltered starts as he ages and begins to decline. This would be allotting a lot of capspace for Defense though, so you'd have to be pretty confident in Geekie at 2RW as we would have very minimal budget to upgrade their and would need to spend pretty much the entire remaining cap on our third line.

 

[Felonious Python]

 

[LightningStrikes]

 

[JTBF81]

Andersson seems an unlikely target for Tampa. Calgary wants high end center prospects, which Tampa has none to offer. I doubt JBB is considering moving Geekie in any offer for him either. Tampa doesn't have the pieces to win a bidding war against a few other teams in this situation.

 

[These Are The Days]

I don't hate Andersson but God.... please. PLEASE can we let go of the fixation with the defense? We have FIVE guys who can play in the 1st or 2nd pairing. Dudes. We have a SCORING problem in the playoffs not a lack of options on the defense

Everytime someone shuts down Kucherov we're f***ed. We have Guentzel now. Let's add to that insurance policy

 

[Point21]

with a healthy group:

Hedman-Moser
McD-Cernak
TDL Add-Raddysh
Lilleberg

Perbix could be shipped out as a cap move with a little value.

they dont really need to do much this deadline, just a bottom pairing dman that can shut down teams for 12-15 minutes a night. Forward wise is where it gets tricky as we need like 2-3 pieces in the 7F-12F spots preferably a strong middle 6 winger that can play on the 2nd line and move down to the 3rd line if need be to add "Depth" scoring. We could very well see Howard making his debut in the playoffs or very late in the season on the 3rd line

 

[Felonious Python]

I don't hate Andersson but God.... please. PLEASE can we let go of the fixation with the defense? We have FIVE guys who can play in the 1st or 2nd pairing. Dudes. We have a SCORING problem in the playoffs not a lack of options on the defense

Everytime someone shuts down Kucherov we're f***ed. We have Guentzel now. Let's add to that insurance policy

There are four defensemen on the top two pairings, so having five isn't too extravagant.

Teams have issues scoring in the playoffs because their opponents load up on defensive depth.

 

[These Are The Days]

There are four defensemen on the top two pairings, so having five isn't too extravagant.

Teams have issues scoring in the playoffs because their opponents load up on defensive depth.

You'd think in light of that we'd stop running a 1 line strategy but we insist on doing it year after year anyway. This is gonna be year 4. Teams don't have to do anything but throw the kitchen sink at Kucherov and watch our entire game plan collapse. Consciously deciding to let the other team control the puck 65% of every playoff game while your offense (Kucherov) is being suffocated is stupid. We don't do ANYTHING unless he's on the ice


Again, Guentzel is gonna help. But we are probably need more seeing as line 2 is probably gonna be turned into a shutdown line come playoff time. Having Andersson isn't gonna fix a damn thing when a 1 goal deficit may as well be 3 because our coaching staff decided they'd rather see Cirelli block a shot instead of scoring a goal

 

[Rschmitz]

I'm also in favor of more forward depth instead of D depth. Very difficult to matchup against, as we've demonstrated in the past.