Any lineup with S.Jobes Nd Connor Barfy is doomed from the beginning.
An inch at a time..
We added 1 competent Legit NHL dman=Vlasic
KAISER looks lije he could join tge co peyent list ifvhe keeps improving to year end this seasoni.
EthN Del Mastro looks to be mastering the AHL level level five and shoukd be 1 and done there and joining the competence D group in the show next season.
So that would be 3 co.petents done.
Unfortunately this still leaves 2 vet inconpetents at 1 RD and 2Rd spots
Even if we draft Levshunov ,he probably needs 1 more college season Fafer this one before joining the show..Any other dmen we draft with our 1st rounders will take longer.
Not sure if Allen is going to be NHL competent or not..
Rinzel is progressing faster in the NCAA than I thought...but still probly neds 1 more year at least before leaving school.
Also Taige Harding probably stays 1 more seadon after this in Providence College .
So unless we add a competent FA and at least get rid of Murphy,wexare still stuck with the $9.5plus Barfy problem.
After next season Murphy is UFA anyway so we probably trade him at TDL next seasonif not sooner.
IFwe get Celebrini he may be 1 and done ...or the Hawks delay getting him out of school toll 25/26 so as not to be too good next sesson and get a good lottery shot for a 3rd season ins row.
Same idea if we jabbed with Eiserman..
By 25/26 season tge yutevibfusionwill be more "ready" and we can start dumping thecsyand in place vets up front..
The d-coris will have slowly gotten to 5 competent dmen who can tsuooress scores and imoact on the offensive side...BUT of $9.5 still will be the albatross in the room.
They probably need to make jom ac5tj line forward so that we can then get 6 competent dmen to complete thecre-build of our d'corps..
Or maybe sone NHL team will be dumb enough to take $9.5 off our books even for 50cents on the dollar (we pay half his cap)...nah ...wishful thi king.
Seth Jones is not a conptentv1D.. I do notceven want hom as a 2D or 3D..he has no instinct to pkay the position properly ..
The eye test of his flaws and in abilities to successfully game-change ,faiksxas a pp qb,fails as a n ice tilted ir shot suppression master are tgere for anyone but blind persons to witness.
I an sick of his lousy ROI at $9.5 m ...not value for money..but even if we paid 95cents for hom,woukd any team actually want hom...he is justxanother giy but maybe worse.
A 1D cannot be in the minus 30s ...cannot be failing as a Pp qb...cannot be unable to stymie attacks ,cannot be unable to win puck battles and clear the pucks outcaeay fron harm.
He fails..Way too much..
Goit go ..but we are with him due to Stanbo's gross error in tradibgvfir hom and that stupid $9.5 dral for 8 seasobs.
He is incompetent and nothing will change that short of sitting hom on the bench which no team would do to a $9.5 costly player .
For $9.5 you want a star..but he is is really just another guy ..or not even that..
So no matter how much we add co often enough to tge teM,the $9.5 problem will prevent us from being able to climb up to playoff contender.
Possibility Hawks buy hom out...but Only could see tgat for final 2 seasons of his lengthy deal..
