Regular season you have an argument. In the playoffs he would’ve provided a step up it healthy. Then again, last year if Brassard is healthy I think we beat the Caps.
Hmm, yeah, I'd give that a fair probability - but probably not to the point of saving us.
They had no depth, they were using their depth pieces as starters. Injuries happen, they also happen both years they won the cup, but due to their depth they still won.
Oh, I thought you mean depth as in bottom 6/bottom pairing, not 13th-14th forwards and 7th-8th dmen.
Regardless, the identity of those players isn't meaningful when you have major collapses of form from your best players, largely due to injuries. Not unless you've fluked out and your depth pieces are MAF/Murray level for a lucky run or two. And we never had that level of problem at any point in the Cup Runs.
And tbh, when the injured players are mainly still playing through the injuries, the identity of the 14th/15th forwards etc.etc. is particularly meaningless as they'd never hit the ice anyway.
Murray, Letang, Kessel, Malkin, Brassard. That's why we bombed out of the cup.
For as many people are criticizing the idea, I'm confused why the votes in this are 22-1
I really don't get why these votes aren't spread out more even. Are people just overrating the picks or making up scenarios to pick the first option? I also think the poll choices are worded specifically to skew results towards the Bonino vote, the options should just be "re-sign Bonino and make no trades" or "do what the Penguins did". Including stuff like keeping Cole (who wasn't going to re-sign with the team) and mentioning the 1st is dishonest wording IMO.
I haven't voted because I think its a really bad option. I guess I might be a bit surprised that the OP hasn't had more vocal support from those voters though