RandV
It's a wolf v2.0
The people who still think this team is "at least 4/5 years away from being a good team" and that we still need to mercilessly sell our assets or whatever are out of touch with the impact Pettersson/Boeser/Horvat will have on this team in the future.
I agree that at this point the idea of "mercilessly" selling isn't necessarily the way to go (and I never thought it was), but I also take issue with the latter part of the statement.
The impact those 3 will have on the team in the future? Horvat is leading the team in icetime with hard minutes and sub par linemates yet is on pace for 66 points. Boeser and Pettersson have missed a few games each, but averaged to an 82 game season Boeser is scoring at a 35-39-74 and Pettersson a 47-45-92 pace. And this is all happening while 2/3 are still on their ELC's.
The future is only going to get harder because very soon these 3 will be costing us over $20M in cap and it won't be quite so easy to add players anymore. Not that this is a bad thing if the team is being managed well, but that's sort of the crux of this matter.