It's definitely way too early to see the whole picture, but we can grab another vet while still getting younger.
If we can get Marner/Stamkos + another top 4 defenseman it'll be a great offseason.
I agree, definitely way too early to judge, the playoffs aren’t even over yet haha.
I mean I agree about if we can get marner or stammer (preferably marner because of age) plus another top 4 defenseman to replace McD (we do not have anyone in the system now that is capable of that) that would be solid but I worry about assets we would have to move out to get another top 4 defenseman back? McD was traded for fairly cheap I feel. We won’t get a guy back of that quality for a second… free agency it is then I suppose? We sure do have a ton of cap space.
Imagine we could sign Skjei to replace McD, do a trade around juuse and marner then somehow bring in Necas with some of our plentiful draft picks and maybe Tomasino since hes unfortunately on the outs… sigh..
Imagine this:
Forsberg Necas Marner
Nyquist O’Reilly Evangelista
Parssinen Sissons Novak
Smith McCarron Jankowski
Josi Fabbro
Skjei Carrier
Lauzon Schenn
I think maybe we somehow try to replace Fabbro with a higher end top pair RD as well…. But he’s still quite young and has been good but not great. Maybe Carrier plays first pair RD
Or maybe we with Tyler Myers too! We have so much cap space lol