Who cares about the stats this year. Our roster is awful. We have no #1C, no #1D, no #1W. No #2D. We have a #2C, but he's our #1C, we don't have a #2C for our 2nd line. The shortest player in the NHL is our best player. After our best players(who are all playing over their heads), our depth is full of busts, AHLers or prospects. We have no star player to make up for it. Hopefully Demidov turns into a 100 point scorer like every other russian Kaprizov, Kucherov, Panarin, that would knock Caufield down to line 2 and would turn Suzuki into either Caufield's 2nd line center or Demidov's support C, would really fix a lot of problems, but there's a 50% chance he turns into Drouin or Ehlers, which wouldn't move the needle at all.
Unless he turns out to be just as good as Makar and Hughes, our team is worse now than it was last year because we replaced Kovacevic with Hutson. We now have, unfortunately, two offensive defensemen and an enforcer on our D-line. Every D pair we put out puts us in danger of getting scored on, 60 straight minutes of no defense every game. We have successfully copied the Sabres and Senators' tank formula from the past few years. Which is good because our future #1D might have just busted thanks to his injury so now we need to lose until we find a new one..set us back 2 years + however long it takes to draft a new one.