Tavares, Rielly and Marner need to be moved on from in that order. If by the 20 game mark this team is still playing like it has recently I'd pull the plug on this roster and start moving a few big pieces.
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I'm pretty doom and gloom and it's not because of two losses. I don't have faith and see no reason for faith. I believe in my soul that Marner/Matthews will never amount to more than 3-6 playoff wins. I would try a retool around Matthews/Willy and reuse the 22M from Marner/JT for a vastly altered look of the same product. If you're playing a card game with the exact same deck and lose 10 straight games, shouldn't you adjust your deck building? Or just keep trying and pray for good luck? It's not even hate at this point, it's stale and I doubt the players even believe in each other, they have so many bad memories here other than their salaries
You don't win a cup with 2 guys though, you win a cup with an entire roster.
Matthews and Marner are 0.87 ppg and 0.88 ppg in the playoffs.
Barkov and Tkachuck who just won a cup are 0.86 ppg and 0.83 ppg in the playoffs.
Yes, it's true... our guys are 4.5 million more expensive then there top two guys, so we lose surplus value here.
But we also have a surplus value on guys like Knies, OEL, Tanev, Stolarz, etc.
Tavares is negative value, about -7 or -6 in surplus value.
Once they allocate Tavares' 11 million properly, our chances improve a lot more imo.
