not bad.
D-Cat is good news.
Hayden and Hino are as well good news of a lesser sort. maybe Kampf too.
Going forward, I think Osterle is a modest bit of good news. is he a 1st pairing guy? Of course not. Not a 2nd pairing guy either. But he is young, cheap, and doubtless a 3rd pairing guy of some value. This was unexpected.
Getting DuClair is maybe a bit of lesser, but still, good news.
The Hawks have a nucleus of reasonable, cheap, and potentially effective depth guys (Osterle on D; Hino. Hayden, Kampf) and one guy who is a top 6 (D-Cat) of merit.
That is all OK.
But we are 2 --- at a minimum --- and really 3 top 4 D-men short on this roster. We are also one top 6 scorer Short. Apart from getting these 4 guys in, the Hawks are a long way away from any sort of competitive play in the future. Sure, the good news is depth and lesser, cheap guys (Hino, Hayden, Kampf, Osterle) --- but those needs are much much lesser than getting the 4 guys we need.
And here is the bad news. We have no one in the system to be those players (at least any time soon). Worse still, we have no resources (Cap Space) to get such players in.
So... sure there is some good news... but it is overwhelmed by the bad news....