Guadana
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Ruff should help, growing process should help. Dahlin-Power-Byram is a very good defensive core. they need management and little more time. all of their talent I named are away from NHL or with minimal NHL experience. at least Peterka, Benson, Helenius Quinn should develop into the solid two way forwards.They need to figure out team defense. If they can do that they will turn the corner. Not sure if Ruff is the guy for that.
On my taste they will figure it out with huge amount of talent. And it helps them to make a trade for some 23-26 yo rfa player who doesn't want to play for some team. And if they will trade 2 players for him, its nothing for them.I think they’ll be good but might lack the true star power upfront with what they have right now. They have a star right now in Thompson but I’m not that big of a believer in him in that I feel like he’s gonna drop off from the extremely high level he got to pretty quickly.
Other than him, they have some guys who should be pretty good but no one I really see being a star. Should have good depth but will they have any real star power upfront a few years from now? Cozens maybe gets closer but I think his offensive potential might be somewhat limited.
Their high high-end talent on D may help make up for that.
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I hope ne of Misyul-Vilen-Haattakka will have NHL opportunity on the regular basis before Silayev will join Devils organisation, will show himself as a very talented regular player and Sabres will be interesting enough to make a trade for one of their talented forward, they don't have roster spots for all of them.