I don't really pay much attention to veterans in preseason. Experience has taught me that. We'll see when the games matter.
This is my favorite kind of argument! It's so out of touch with reality... like if teams were building their roster to absolutely suck and draft higher, particularly after making the playoffs the 2 seasons prior in 2011-12 and 2012-13 (despite many key injuries), and easily defeating the 2nd seed in the East 4-1 in the playoffs
Yeah, the Sens should have totally tanked in 2013-14! They shouldn't have signed MacArthur, they shouldn't have traded for Ryan. Just go full rebuild because 41 y/o Alfie left! Tell all the players that they have no faith in them (Karlsson, Spezza, Turris, Michalek, Zibanejad, Methot, Smith, Anderson, Lehner, Ceci, etc) and rebuild again!