This team is 15 games into year 2 of a total rebuild. The organization is not even trying to win hence all the plugs they signed in the off season.
We have maybe 2 forwards with skill. One is 18 years old.
Don't get me started on our D.
Our goaltending is worse.
It will be the same next year as well.
I like the 3 guys at CHGO but they were way off base with their predictions this year. They said this team would be around 70 points. What roster were they looking at? If we hit 62 points I'll be blown away.
If you want a .500 hockey club than Stan Bowman is your man. After the Window closed he tried for years to slap band aids on the roster only to miss the playoffs by 7 points. Those days are over.
The team is going to suck for a long time. By design. This team rises from the ashes when Bedard is joined by other young talent and they become stars together. Korchinski, Nazar, Moore, Commesso, Vlasic, Rinzel, Reichel, Allan, 2 players from this years 1st round, 2 players from the next years 1st round and a handful of others. When they develop we will look like the 2008-09 Hawks and hopefully the 2009-10 Hawks. That is a ways away. So sit back with me and watch some GARBAGE hockey because in 5 years it will all be worth it.