Captain Awesome
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What is depressing is Nill will most likely be back and he has signaled his intentions. You don’t sign pavelski to a 1 year deal if you plan on rebuilding or retooling. He will sign 3rd/4th line grinders who can’t score to cheap contracts like last year and call it good. Probably bring Bowness back to make another run with this core.
Pretty much this. I'd love to speculate about how they could restructure the team to add more youth, but so long as Nill is here he is going to go for it again next year, except with a handicap of having to pay JRob and Oettinger real salaries. Even though I think some of the talent could be replaced internally, I just don't see them utilizing rookies to the fullest extent with the intention of developing them into impact players, or even productive middle 6 guys.
I was on the trade Klingberg ship at the beginning of the last offseason for a reason, it was to maximize the value of picks and things we could use for a retool. Instead, he didn't get traded at all, neither did Radulov, Pavelski, or Faksa. Nill has no intention of doing a rebuild/retool because he'll get fired if they miss the playoffs, presumably. If they had hired a new GM who had time and leash, maybe they're in a much better situation for next year at the expense of a first round exit that doesn't really matter in the long run.