Attempting to bolt on XYZ aspect of what this team is missing hasn't worked. It didn't work with adding leadership, it didn't work with adding physicality in the bottom six, we're not going to become hard to play against even if we add the biggest psycho in the league. Our softness is an identity problem, not a personnel problem. We ran a bottom six and blueline absolutely chock full of hitters and bruisers, and it didn't mean squat because the core are what drive the team and they're not killers.
Add Wilson and subtract Marner, and now we're starting to cook a team that's nasty. We also desperately need the Muzzin replacement #2D who can handle big minutes and is an imposing physical presence. We need a little bit of the ol' Burke era testosterone, pugnacity, and truculence, and it needs to come from the core. Wilson works in Washington because it's Ovi's team and Ovi was an absolute wrecking ball in his heyday.
