JR and Sully do have to re-think their roster approach tho even with no moves.
Reaves getting a regular jersey ain't moving the needle at all. Treat him as a #13-14 or waive him. Get some youngsters up and play em.
Reaves would be fine if we still had Bonino/Cullen. He wouldn't be ideal of course and I'd prefer not to have him, but he wouldn't be crippling.
But when we have a bottom six that can't score as it is *and* Reaves is part of the mix, that's a problem. Sid/Geno/Phil are all PPG or better. Letang is putting up points. Guentzel/Horny have done alright offensively.
After that though? Rusty is doing OK I suppose, but after that it's just bleh. Sheary has a decent amount of goals but his overall PPG is way down this year. Schultz before he got hurt was doing nowhere near as well as he had. Hags/Kuhn/Reaves basically are just bodies on the ice. They bring absolutely nothing offensively to the table. Sheahan has been OK.
An underrated problem with our team is our defense doesn't score much this year either. Schultz having a down year offensively is really hurting us. And yes I know part of that is Tang taking some of his PP minutes but even with that we're not getting enough of Jultz.