Kurt Cobain
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- Mar 30, 2004
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.Alright I feel like there's a lot of negativity floating around. So I felt like starting a thread based on what we have to look forward to as an organization, but with my luck a moderator will combine this with another thread. I'm the eternal optimist I feel like being a pessimist is a waste of time and sports should never stress you out.
These are the reason why we should be much more optimistic than a lot of other organizations who have similar records at the moment. We have a plethora of first year talent who are only going to get better; Santini, Zacha, Blandisi and Wood.
The core of our team is in its mid 20s and they're signed to reasonable contracts; Hall, Henrique, Palmieri, Severson, Merrill, Noeson, Joefson, Schneider and even Zajac I'll count, although he's s few years older. Greene still has a few years of good hockey left too.
The two guys everyone want gone Lovejoy and Cammalleri will both be gone in two season. So we got like $8 million in cap hit coming off the roster from them too. That doesn't even count the guys like Savard, Quincy and Parenteau coming off the books this offseason. We're going to have so much cap space that we could over pay. Only if we're a talking about the best free agents or take on a contract or two from teams who need to under the cap.
We know what we need we need a top line center, top 6 RW and a top pairing defense. We could do it in in free agency or trades. We're gonna be picking top 5 and will have 9 other picks. After this draft we'll have a very good prospect pool. Which means more assets to trade. Also have 9 more in 2018.
Even before this draft we got really good talent within our prospects. McLeod, Blackwood, Bastian, Anderson, Rykov, White, Speers, Quennville, White, Coleman, Pietilla, Gignac and you can go on we have good prospects. Not even counting the four in the NHL who are still technically prospects.
We know what we need and we just have to go about doing it. After this draft I'd be totally willing to trade futures and high quality futures to get what we
need. The future is not bleak and were closer to being a playoff team than many other organizations.
The reason I think we can make the difference is if you look at the standings we're a 6 game win streak from being in the playoffs and if we lose a couple were picking 3rd overall. The east is top heavy and we can make the playoff as early as next year with a couple tweaks.
Don't care if anyone thinks I'm being unrealistic, better than being negative about everything and crying about it. I can't be the only fan filled with optimism when it comes to this organization.
These are the reason why we should be much more optimistic than a lot of other organizations who have similar records at the moment. We have a plethora of first year talent who are only going to get better; Santini, Zacha, Blandisi and Wood.
The core of our team is in its mid 20s and they're signed to reasonable contracts; Hall, Henrique, Palmieri, Severson, Merrill, Noeson, Joefson, Schneider and even Zajac I'll count, although he's s few years older. Greene still has a few years of good hockey left too.
The two guys everyone want gone Lovejoy and Cammalleri will both be gone in two season. So we got like $8 million in cap hit coming off the roster from them too. That doesn't even count the guys like Savard, Quincy and Parenteau coming off the books this offseason. We're going to have so much cap space that we could over pay. Only if we're a talking about the best free agents or take on a contract or two from teams who need to under the cap.
We know what we need we need a top line center, top 6 RW and a top pairing defense. We could do it in in free agency or trades. We're gonna be picking top 5 and will have 9 other picks. After this draft we'll have a very good prospect pool. Which means more assets to trade. Also have 9 more in 2018.
Even before this draft we got really good talent within our prospects. McLeod, Blackwood, Bastian, Anderson, Rykov, White, Speers, Quennville, White, Coleman, Pietilla, Gignac and you can go on we have good prospects. Not even counting the four in the NHL who are still technically prospects.
We know what we need and we just have to go about doing it. After this draft I'd be totally willing to trade futures and high quality futures to get what we
need. The future is not bleak and were closer to being a playoff team than many other organizations.
The reason I think we can make the difference is if you look at the standings we're a 6 game win streak from being in the playoffs and if we lose a couple were picking 3rd overall. The east is top heavy and we can make the playoff as early as next year with a couple tweaks.
Don't care if anyone thinks I'm being unrealistic, better than being negative about everything and crying about it. I can't be the only fan filled with optimism when it comes to this organization.
