I was thinking of what the team might look like next year.
Bertuzzi-Larkin-Mantha
Berggren-Fabbri/????-Zadina
Fabbri-Vlad/Veleno-Svechnikov
Rasmussen-Glendening-Givani
????-Seider
Dekeyser-Hronek
Nemeth/Cholo-Stecher/Lindstrom
Again, we need to figure out this 2C and top 4 LD situation.
Just raised this up from the first post.
A great example how "easy" is to predict year over rosters...
There's no Mantha, there's Vrana.
There's no Svechnikov.
There's no Glendening.
??? was acquired (Leddy)
There's no Nemeth, There's no Cholowski
But you were right that 2C and 4 LD was the things to improve. Yzerman did get them as Suter and Leddy. Also fixed the goaltending more long-term, which nobody didn't even expect.
I am thinking we move on from Filppula, Helm, and Staal. Would also probably personally move on from Merrill, Biega, Gagner, Nemeth.
We may bring back Erne or Djoos for depth, I'd be ok with it.
Would be fine with brining back Glendening/Ryan/Bernier if it's for a reasonable AAV. Assuming they are not traded and then sign elsewhere.
Still like very good hunch. We did let go Filppula, Helm, Merrill, Biega, Nemeth. Also did bring back Erne.
Djoos wasn't brought back, but the same player type as Djoos, just better version in Leddy was acquired.
Still frustrated the idea of signing Krug was met with so much opposition. He is a lot of what this team needs. Playing hard minutes (22:41) for St. Louis, and is a +12 with yet again a CF% over 50.
Guy could play for my team any day.
And here you are hoping after that "krug" type, which Leddy is.