Let's bring in a bunch of promising young kids with high skill ceilings and surround them with plugs who give them terrible advice and teach them bad habits. **** it, can they contract out Dan Girardi to give the defensemen a camp on how to "clear" pucks from your own zone. Maybe AV can work with the shooters to practice "quality" over volume.
OR...
Add a quality personality/leadership locker room room guy to generate motivation, fun, and team spirit at minimal cap hit for short term who can play a solid gritty 4th line game with the right guys.
Because that's pretty much what seems to be the unanimous opinion on the dude around the league. Leaders and gel guys aren't just the top players. We lost a lot of that room presence in the last two years. Reaves would be a great add at the right price as we rebuild and have an open 4th line.
Terrible advice and bad habits? You forgot the /s. Or you just don't understand a locker room. That's OK. Many don't. Reaves isn't doing any of that.
And now I read through and saw it isn't happening, so moot point regardless. But my opinion stands. We need some leadership/character guys surrounding the influx of youngsters. Don't have to be tough necessarily, but need the right personality which he apparently has. So hopefully we find someone(s).