bernmeister
Registered User
It's a free country, ignore at yr own perilUsed to years ago before I started putting ignore option to good use.
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but remember, closemindedness is rarely good at any level.
imo Kreider is the only senior vet who can be keptThe hardest part of a on-the-fly retool will be which of our vets we see as the Kane/Toews, Kopitar/Doughty, Malkin/Crosby, IE the people worth keeping into their late 30s, and who should be the Marian Hossas of he world who we cycle out because we can't afford them.
To be honest, we don't really have any guys 30 or older who are quite on that level. You could make a case for Panarin in the regular season but that's about it. Our top core is much better than in the mid 2010's but it's still not the core the multi-cup winners have had.
for short term he will continue to defy aging w/exceptional conditioning
others, not so much