That’s only 40 point for an entire season. That is not good enough for a 2C in Tampa. If 40 points is worth 6 mil what is Point and Kuch and Stammer worth. This type thinking is why the team in in cap hell. HFer’s we’re on the warpath about Johnson, Palat, Killorn is still getting roasted on and on for making too much money. Yes Cirelli is good defensively but not 6 mil good. In a cap environment when no one knows if a significant raise is coming. There is a role for Cirelli’s game on every team but his price tag is too much especially when you consider what this core makes. It is impossible to ice the bottom 6 and 3rd pair with competent support players . What you get is a 3rd and 4th line of redundancy of aged out or ELC’s that can not produce. In the old days the top two lines were scoring lines the 3rd a shutdown line and the 4th a grind line. The game has went past that. I do not think JBB did this on purpose, he and many here thought Jeannot was going to be able to play 2nd line from the goals he scored last year. Now some people are already wanting him resigned. He’s just another guy that can not keep up with this top 6. He may well be the slowest skater on the team.
Great the team has won a couple and looked better this past week but that little monkey is still sitting on the shoulder waiting to collapse again. That’s what happens when you have streaky scoring, that is why Hagel is hurting the team right now last night was what 15 in a row without a goal. The top 6 has to be consistent when that’s all the offense you have on most nights. Or we can hope for two goal games from Maroon or Perry, or Belly. The construction of the cup teams only comes along once in a while. Then the tree king begins as the luster fades. Cirelli is young but he will not be around for the next cup run.
