Speculation: 2023-2024 General Lightning Discussion - Part 3

[Lightning1995]

Lots of good points here and fair discussion. This playoffs when the chips were there to be had, it was the vaunted PP and KUCH that failed. And failed big time. Kuch is our guy and if he continues to fail…..to be vastly inferior to Verhagee Barkov and Reinhardt….the Lightning are toast

 

[Stammertime91]

Lots of good points here and fair discussion. This playoffs when the chips were there to be had, it was the vaunted PP and KUCH that failed. And failed big time. Kuch is our guy and if he continues to fail…..to be vastly inferior to Verhagee Barkov and Reinhardt….the Lightning are toast

It's kind of two sided with him. Everyone helped get him the Ross, but he carried the team and without him, we wouldn't have clinched. So, five games. Worth it? Not really. This felt a lot more like 2016-2017 when we missed so in hindsight, it was probably smarter had we sold at the deadline the few pieces that had any value. Kucherov looked disinterested, disengaged and frustrated the entire series. His body language has always been sour but this entire series he looked awful. 7 points in 5 games, all assists. Nothing new that he sneezed those points out, but a slightly engaged Kucherov (and Point), and it may have looked different earlier in the series.

 

[Todd1a]

Here is where I am at.

No 1st round pick means no rebuild
No rebuild means no letting Stamkos walk
No letting Stamkos walk means no fixing holes with cap space
No fixing holes with cap space means we are in for repeat season of apathetic play.

Whippee

Pretty much unless Dylan Duke comes up and plays awesome and somehow we get lucky and find a top 4 RHD

 

[DownIsTheNewUp]

One thing we got going for us... Brent Seabrook will finally be off the books which means we can potentially accumulate some cap space during the season.

 

[Todd1a]

Need to offload jeannot and sheary somehow