We added two 30+ year olds on D, one of which had advanced stats comparable to Hagg and the other coming off a down year, added a high-end 3C via bad contract To be our 2C, Patrick can’t stay healthy to save anyone’s life, people assumed a 21 year-old sophomore goalie experience with no NHL starter experience to carry us all year, we added two abject failures of coaches as our PK and PP assistants, the core of our team at forward and half our D is in their late 20’s to early 30’s, and none of our top prospects made the team in lieu of guys like Hagg or Stewart or Pitlick.
A lot of people here saw all those and turned it into a positive, enough so to turn a bad team into a sure-fire playoff team. Like I said, those people deserve this for endorsing that decision-making til now.