Some teams have to sign player to stay relevant because their core is aging and declining.
I think TB and Bos did good job rejuvenating themselves. Toronto short term its good but after next year is a mystery.
Many of our growth will come from within and we can only speculate as to how good we will be.
Dach, Slafkovsky, Caufield, Hutson, Reinbacher and/or Mailloux all holds the key to next season.
If Mailloux is a top 4D and Hutson and Dach are as good as they ve shown in two f***ing game, we are absolutely not finishing bottom 5.
Honestly, we aren't that far from teams like the Islanders, Washington and these are teams that made the playoff. I would even argue we are on the verge of surpassing them. Even Carolina.
Washington is all of new faces but what they did is f***ing mid. They acquired mid talent/other teams garbage with a bit of upside but there is no upper tier talent anymore in this team, yet some would argue they dodged an inevitable rebuild. IMO, they only prolonged their midness for another mid term.