Speculation: Roster Building Thread : Part XVIII ( TDL is March 7th)

[HatTrick Swayze]

It needs…. *gasp*…..

A rebuild.

This team is trash. It has nothing. It never developed enough talent and now even the young pieces it had have been frittered away or misdeveloped. The pieces holding this garbage barge afloat were elite Panarin, rejuvenated Kreider, other old players.

The wheels are off now. They got too old and did not have the young pieces to pass the torch to. Shouldn’t have paid the goalie when you have no skaters to build around. This is a mess. There is literally nothing to build around. Your best asset is the 32 year old center you just traded for.

What an idiotic move that was.

“2 windows” was always an inherently flawed concept

 

[Overcast]

“2 windows” was always an inherently flawed concept

We can't get one window right and everyone's focused on a second.

 

[Oscar Lindberg]

At this point I’m sort of whatever on what happens the rest of the season. I’d prefer they win enough the next 20 games to make sure the 1st conveys this year to Pitt.

But they’re basically in no mans land right now. A team in transition that is not nearly good enough to contend, but also not close to being bad enough for a high pick

 

[LORDE]

“2 windows” was always an inherently flawed concept

Sort of like 3 goalies... if you have 3, you have none

Two windows? You don't have a window

 

[SnowblindNYR]

That’s what we have yep.

How anyone can have the balls to look at that and say “this is a team with a good chance to win a cup” is beyond me.

We don’t have Henrik any more. Time to stop pretending we do by trying to build a skyscraper out of legos

And yet our goalie is paid as if we do. I'm legit convinced Drury thought he was righting the Joe Schoen wrong of letting Saquon Barkley go terrifed he'd go to the Devils and win a cup or something.

 

[WojtekWolski86]

The only positives to take away from this daily menstrual cycle of a team is Rempe is improving and Berard is the bottom 6 motor we've missed since hagelin. Carrick is a positive as a 4th liner not as a 3C.

Also, anyone else notice that Othmann is getting subjected to and falling hook-line-sinker for the 4th line trap development that Laf and Kaako went through. Instead of rising up he's trying to play like a plug.

 

[CLW]

Lol dude what? Tampa traded a lot of firsts but they also nailed later round picks….

Cirelli - 72nd overall
Kucherov - 58th overall
Point - 79th overall
Gourde - undrafted
Killorn - 77th overall
Palat - 208th overall
Tyler Johnson - undrafted

Tampa are the anti-Rangers. Instead of sucking the soul out out of their prospects they build up real fighters. Imagine that.

 

[80shockeywasbuns]

What a job by Drury to lock in elite options with term like Borgen, Vaakanainen, and Soucy. Can’t wait to watch these beasts for years to come especially with Schneider. It will be cool to see if they can get a few more 6/7 defenseman and maybe start filling out the 3rd 4th lines with them. Maybe on the power play too. Keep em comin

 

[bhamill]

I'm saying it's remarkable that he's got that many points with linemates that aren't helping him much...thats what im saying, you dont need to interpret my words for me.

I’m telling you how they read. If you don’t want them read, why are you posting them?
And it’s just as easy to say he’s not helping his linemates much. Or we could just say the whole line has declined, inclucing Pan, without having a chicken or the egg argument. The “we’ll have to replace Pans 100pts” argument is moot to me because even if we kept him he’s not going to score 100 points. IMO.

 

[bhamill]

You are 100% correct. All 3 have slipped this season. My disappointment is I predicted that Bread and Vince would decline from career years in their 30's but I had thought Laf would be the guy to take a step up at his age. I really do not know what happened with Laf. He looked ready to take that next step early in the season. Looked like he was in playoff form if not better. Just a strange season where all our warts were not only exposed but got much larger.

I agree. Laf was particularly puzzling this year.