Triumph
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Good thing that the FA market isnt the only way to acquire those players, right? There are also 3 with the pedigree currently. Landeskog, Hoffman and Tatar. RNH has also hovered around those numbers, but as both a C and LW. They are available literally every single year.
Landeskog is very unlikely to make it to UFA. Hoffman and Tatar, sure. RNH, if he makes it to UFA, will almost certainly go somewhere where he is expected to play center, and he won't get to be on a power play with McDavid and Draisaitl. It of course needs no pointing out that RNH has scored 114 goals in the 376 games he's played for the Oilers since 2015-16 while Palmieri has scored 136 in 387 for the Devils and hasn't had a PP with Draisaitl and McDavid on which to do it. Palms obviously has more PP goals but that's because he's been the guy the Devils have looked to set up on the power play - Nugent-Hopkins would never be that option for anybody.
Bringing back the same players that aren't really that good and then expecting the team to get good is the definition of trying to miracle your way into it. The offense isn't good with Kyle Palmieri playing a first line role. The team is a bottom 5 team with Kyle Palmieri playing a 1st line role. Look at the first lines of perennial contenders around the league and tell me that Kyle Palmieri belongs in that discussion. Im not dishing out contract and length of a 1st line winger to a guy that clearly does not matter that much to wins and losses. I'd rather wait and keep the money and the spot open and see if I can swing a deal or if one of our first round picks can take the spot.
You keep constructing strawmen like the idea that I said Palmieri deserves 1st line winger money or term.
Palmieri did belong in that discussion before this season, he could easily have been a 1st line winger on basically any team - there'd obviously be several teams where he wouldn't be because of who's already there, but right-shot RWs who score nearly 30 goals/82 games are difficult to find. Any winger who scores nearly 30 goals/82 games are difficult to find. The Devils have really only managed to find 1 over the last 10 years.