PK Cronin
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- Feb 11, 2013
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I absolutely love optimism, but not at the expense of reality. I'd like to let Sorokin play ONE (1) NHL game before I anoint him an NHL starter, much less the next Brodeur. And not sure a 2nd year Dobson makes up for the loss of Toews and Boychuk. And of course this team has added exactly zero additional scoring to a roster that's been in the botom half of the league the last 2 years running.
And all that said it really doesn't address literally the most important piece to this team...
Adam Pelech.
Look at how the team performed with him, and without him, and you will see the true MVP of this team. An MVP that all of a sudden has had some injury issues on his resume that are noteworthy. I hope it's just been bad luck and we don't have another Radek Martinek on our hands. Because I truly believe this team can get to the semi-finals again with Pelech playing...And there's a chance they miss the playoffs if he doesn't.
While there's still time to do some things, we didn't add any/enough talent to overcome another Pelech injury so that is my biggest concern right now - Even more than the cap situation.
Not exactly true, Pageau was not here to start last season and he was added. He should help with some scoring, but I don't expect him to be a game breaker in that area. We'll see what else Lamoriello has in store.