Looking at how others rebuilt has value and I guess gives us the length of time these things may take and how we stand up against other ls and such. But I guess to me we need to look at what we have in players as the key.
As a basic skeleton and foundation we need a 1C, 2C, 1D, 2D, 3D and starting goalie.
I believe we have a 1C, 2D and 3D.
Dach may be our 2C but not so far. No immediate panic as the guy missed a year and he lost his top winger because of injury. Still we ate on the clock with Dach. I think if he doesn't prove himself as a 2C this year we need to start looking hard.
Forward wise we have 1st line wingers in Caufield , Slaf and I'm thinking Demidov. So we need one more and that could be Laine or even Dach. Missing a 2C is huge but otherwise looking pretty good. Possible we will need a bigger guy on the top 6 in size and play.
Big loss with Reinbacher. Was hoping to get a read on him and obviously a year of development. Hutson is blowing me away, and he and Guhle are 2 and 3 guys for sure, but don't see either claiming no.1D right now. Do we have a no.1D ? Matheson has the spot by default but no idea when it gets filled, its a big hole
Starting goalie ? Frig man WTH.
Bottom 6 forwards has potential with guys like Heineman, Beck, Florian X and L Tuch coming up. We have guys like Evans ( UFA ) Gallagher and Anderson around for now. Questions on Newhook.
On D after the top 3 we have some quantity and bit of quality so no worries.
So where we are in the rebuild depends a lot on the 2C , 1D roles an goalie. We fill We fill couple of those then we can compete but not be serious contenders. After that we need young cheap players to mostly fill out Spotswood can chip in so we avoid the Toronto disaster. We need a team identity, like big , fast, skilled and physical would be good lol.
We have lots of assets. Pretty good shape.
But how long to get those missing pieces ? Maybe we pull a huge trade to speed it up. And we need to get battle tested. Some guys look good, do they still look good post season ?
