All but guaranteed a top 4 pick this year. GREAT. McKenna or not I really hope we’re not this shitty next season. Bedard + Lev + Schaefer/Misa/the other guys should be enough.
I don’t know why people are so desperate to accelerate the rebuild before we’re ready to take the next step. We will and should be a bottom five team next year. Bedard+Lev+this years pick MIGHT be enough but the 2026 draft is looking pretty great as of now so there’s no need to rush things when we clearly aren’t ready yet.
No matter what KD does this summer we are realistically going to be a bad team next year as well and people should be fine with that as long as the younger players continue to develop.
Knight and Söderblom is a pretty exciting goalie duo but neither of them have ever played a lot of games in the league.
Vlasic, Murphy, some new vet D and three of Lev, Edm, Allan, Crevier , Korchinski and Söderström is an exciting d-core but it’s not good.
Bertuzzi-Bedard-FA signing
Mikheyev-Donato-Teravainen
Reichel-Nazar-Dach
Veleno-Dickinson-Foligno
This is a pretty likely forward core. Maybe they sign another forward and maybe it will include Michael Misa. Either way, this team will and should be bad next season and then the following year it’s time to take the next step. Have patience. When we hopefully compete for the cup in 4-5 years you will be grateful that we sucked for an extra year so that we could get McKenna, Verhoeff or Roobroeck.