Orca Smash
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- Feb 9, 2012
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Idk how I feel about it - I'd argue we are just about looking in at what Chicago had.
We have players like Hoglander/Podz/MacEwen/Lind/Lockwood/Woo/Rathbone/Tryamkin/Juolevi/Rafferty who look poised to pushing for a roster spot in the next 1-3 years. Which fills a lot of holes IMO. Now we definitely could use another defender - but I can see something like:
Petey-Miller-Podz
Hoglander-Bo-Boeser
Lind-Gaudette-Virtanen
Rous/UFA-Beagle-MacEwen
Hughes-Tryamkin
Edler-Rafferty
Myers- CHEAP UFA/Woo/Juolevi
Many will scoff over this D - but it's actually very solid. Tryamkin is Hughes perfect partner IMO.
I like Podkolzin and Hoglander, but they still have a long way to go, same with lind especially. Tryamkin could be good but highly doubt he is a first pairing guy if he even comes over. That lineup has alot of best case scenarios in it and unreasonable expectations imo.