BillR10
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- Nov 16, 2008
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I think Graf needs an amazing camp to make the team barring trades. Grundlund, Dellandria and Egor I think will have a look before GrafProbably pretty close to the same. Celebrini (if he signs) and Smith are better on balance than Hertl on his own without the broken corpse of Couture. Hoffman and Labanc and the lost wings outside of Duclair were mostly trash anyways.
Assuming Cooch isn't healthy and Celebrini signs we're probably looking at something vaguely like:
Eklund - Celebrini- Toffoli
Granlund - Smith - Zetterlund
Kostin - Wennberg- Goodrow
Kunin - Sturm - Graf
Ferraro - Rutta
Walman - Benning
Vlasic - Thompson?
Blackwood
Vanacek
That's still pretty bad, especially on the blueline, but those forward lines are pretty close to "sorta halfway acceptable if you squint really hard and also recognize this is a crap team that's still gonna tank for at least next season"
Probably not enough to win a lot more games, but at least better enough to not get boat raced 10-1 a bunch of times.