Panarin and Trouba fell into their laps, you’ve can say that Kakko has as well, if these recent signings are to insulate the youth on the roster and keep the build going then it’s a fantastic start. The so called bad defense will resolve it self as bad contracts come off books in 2 years, Staal, Smith, Shatty $16.7m and Lundqvist at another $8.5m. Two more years is ideal time for young players on roster or down in Hartford to make strides, Chytil, Howden, Hajer, Rykov, Georgiev, Shestyorkin, Fox, while pushing out the current vets Strome, Namestnikov, Fast, etc. and Kakko, Kravtsov, hopefully starting to emerge as the future starts. 2 more years of picking lowish to address center depth, or using some of the excess d depth to acquire another C. Then they still have Miller, Robertson among others developing along with Barron, Henriksson, Aaltonen to fill out the depth. Lots of moving parts but damn I don’t think it could’ve been dreamed up better for a proper bottom up rebuild. Yes it’s always nice to get that high end C as the first building block, but we’ll just have to add that along the way.