How is he a redundancy, when we literally have/had no one like him for several years? The redundancy is in many of the names you listed. However, Aston-Reese and Sprong are going to be top-9 forwards for us at some point, so Reaves changes nothing.
This is about Kuhnhackl, Rowney and Archibald. I'd take Reaves over any of those guys all day, every day. Di Pauli? Are you serious?
"Hey Sid, we had a chance to acquire Reaves from St. Louis, but we like Di Pauli better so we did not make the deal."
Come on.
We don't know if he is leaving after one year. He may play too well for us on the fourth line, and price himself out of Pittsburgh. If that happens, so be it. Still, how is that a bad thing.
Come on, LM 66. You are better than that. It was 20 spots in the draft, not a 1st rounder.
OK, so we are already throwing Lauzon under the bus?
Do you like Sprong? He was drafted. Do you like Guentzel? He was drafted.
I am giving the two-time Cup builders the benefit of the doubt, call me crazy.