sticker76
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Imo the Canes have youth/skills. Two issues at hand the team is facing are 1) Leadership core needs a shakeup. You can't tell me Staal, Skinner, Faulk, Ward (now a UFA) aren't sick of failing to make the playoffs for a good part of 5 seasons now. And the team I'm sure feels the same. David Krejci stats the last seasons (63 , 54 and 44 points this season in 60 games). Scoring at a higher rate per game than Staal
2) Hanifin hasn't lived up to what the Hurricanes were hoping. Plus he is due for a sizable extension.
I'm a therapist, so I won't comment on the delusions of your thinking. Justin Williams will most like be our captain, (great leadership) and think Slavin and Pesce are also guys that can fill that role with Staal. Peters f***ed up by doing the co-captain thing and Brind'amour will not be doing that. While Krejci may out produce Staal, he is trending downwards, older and has a higher cap hit. Plus as was pointed out, Canes now have to protect 2 more players that they would not want to, thus exposing more core players. We don't expect Staal to be a scorer. Aho/Necas and wings will fill that role. Staal has 2 play a 2 way game and put up around 40-50 points and we are good with that. Hanifin is still extremely young and can still be everything we thought when we drafted him. His sizable extension will either be bridge deal or less than Pesce/Slavin deals.
No matter how you break it down value wise for the Canes, it is atrocious for Canes. No team needs are met for the Canes and value is even worse