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Avsboy
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Thorton02
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Viqsi
"that chick from Ohio"
Kind of a tough call. It really requires a team with good but not elite talent on the way out due to age starting out by establishing a trend of really poor front office decisions (such as from a GM who's poor but getting lots of slack, or a meddling owner, or whatever). Then one has to couple that with several drafts going really poorly, and a few Inexplicable Trades that go even worse.
The closest we've gotten to seeing that latter show up recently was Minnesota, but they quickly amputated so the patient may have been saved. Montreal might have been a candidate, except the Domi trade actually worked. Pittsburgh under Rutherford have had some dubious-looking moments in the market lately, but they've got too many elite guys for things to go south. Dallas just picked up Heiskanen, so they may still have hope. Half the PHWA have already printed their eulogies for Columbus, but the Jackets are doing too well in the draft and still have too many good young players despite high-profile departures. Similar considerations exist for Winnipeg. And so on.
My best guess, if I had a gun to my head and had to pick one team? Detroit. I just think the rebuild will take a long time, even with Stevie Y present. But I would not be at all shocked if they end up making that pick look dumb in short order. There's just too many variables. It takes a strange sort of talented incompetence to be that hopeless.
The closest we've gotten to seeing that latter show up recently was Minnesota, but they quickly amputated so the patient may have been saved. Montreal might have been a candidate, except the Domi trade actually worked. Pittsburgh under Rutherford have had some dubious-looking moments in the market lately, but they've got too many elite guys for things to go south. Dallas just picked up Heiskanen, so they may still have hope. Half the PHWA have already printed their eulogies for Columbus, but the Jackets are doing too well in the draft and still have too many good young players despite high-profile departures. Similar considerations exist for Winnipeg. And so on.
My best guess, if I had a gun to my head and had to pick one team? Detroit. I just think the rebuild will take a long time, even with Stevie Y present. But I would not be at all shocked if they end up making that pick look dumb in short order. There's just too many variables. It takes a strange sort of talented incompetence to be that hopeless.
johnjm22
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Gotta be San Jose.
Bad team, no prospects, no 1st round pick.
Bad team, no prospects, no 1st round pick.
Come on. Its SJ and its not close.
winnipegger
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When Crosby and Malkin retire in the next 5 years it's not gonna be pretty.
LemmyUlanov55
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I wouldn't be so sure about SJ though, Doug Wilson knows what he's doing..
Oilers Propagandist
Relax junior, it’s just a post.
Maybe Colorado. Jets are 1 of the youngest teams in league. We got everybody paid. Good luck paying everybody in the next few years.
You guys get any forwards that we aren't aware of. 3 forwards and an ahl forward roster wont get you far.
Big Cactus
Gud Pro
I’m not really sure why people are saying San Jose. They have a pretty young group of forwards and 2 of the best defencemen in the league locked up for term. Maybe in a few years but seems hf is reacting poorly to a 5 game sample size (as always).
YoSoyLalo
me reading HF
Gonna have to say Minny
Inb4 the droves of Minny fans to tell us everything is ok and they’ll be fine
Inb4 the droves of Minny fans to tell us everything is ok and they’ll be fine
Viqsi
"that chick from Ohio"
This. They look like a "good" long-term candidate (like, when EK and Burns and Couture are all fading), but they've pulled too many rabbits out of their hat in the draft for me to be confident in picking them.
Avsboy
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Do they have enough D prospects to fill the void?
Colorado will be fine. Cap is going up and several big contracts will be unloaded over the next few years, like EJ. Everything fits nicely together to keep the big three forwards, Makar, Girard, and a few other pieces.
Absolutely and 8 mill in cap space next year if buff doesn't come back . The team is so young they aren't falling of a cliff like the wild say at their ages.
And Colorado is the youngest team in the league, with the most cap space in the league(Minus the poverty Ottawa team), and have almost our entire core signed for 4 more years....
Anomie2029
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Ah, got to love recency bias!
It was cute the last 10 times San Jose were going to have the big crash.
Chet Manley
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the domi trade is a fraction of the story. Top 5/6 prospect pool, probably youngest forward group in the league, lots of talent coming at all positions and a potential replacement for price (primeau) . They haven't had the C depth, they have now - since they won the cup. habs also have 13 picks next summer. they'll be very, very good going forward. If they can't develop an elite dman (romanov, brook etc -may not be no.1's), they'll have assets to trade for one. Yes, they have no superstars in their system...but Kotkaniemi, Suzuki, Poehling, Caulfied - added to drouin, domi, Gallagher etc...is significant...Not a bergevin fan, but he has done some good things
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