I don't think it's a secret this team is lacking another true superstar/firepower.Am I misreading this? We're going to do the we're not good enough for him thing with Laine, the guy who kills every line he is on?
If you want to be a contender I feel like you need at least 2 bonafide superstar/PPG players on the roster. We've never had that. Werenski and Jones don't produce enough offensively to be considered true superstar threats. And nobody outside of Laine has that potential on the offense. Like you have mentioned previously, I think we need another true top line superstar/PPG type player on another line to draw the attention away from Laine.
A player like Panarin would have been perfect to draw the toughest matchups away from Laine.
Jarmo is gonna have a helluva time trying to capture that kinda lighting in a bottle twice. Panarin like deals don't come around often.