I think they are a fun regular season team but they still have some years to get spanked.
Asking for 4 effective adds in one UFA class is asking for a lot. You're lucky quite often if one of your UFA signings works out.
I think the franchise is in an interim phase where they will get beat in the 1st/2nd round for a few years before maybe breaking through.
I don’t know if all the holes we address will be by signings, I think couple of them will be with trades too.
The blessing of the flat cap has been that GMs haven’t lost their mind in free agency. Depth players are only being awarded short term deals and that bodes well for us. We won’t handcuff ourselves to terrible contracts and will have players hungry to win.
Montreal last season had a huge off-season bringing in Toffoli, Anderson, Edmundson, Allen etc and those trades and signings all worked out for them.
Even if Holland doesn’t check every single box off, he has the opportunity to check off most and then bolster the line up at trade deadline.
You could be right. We might go through that phase but the mentality from this management group can’t be that. We have to give Connor and Leon every chance to win and support them as much as possible starting this off-season and going forward.