NickyFotiu
NYR 2024 Cup Champs!
- Sep 29, 2011
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Before this spins out into the atmosphere, let me suggest a little something more down to earth (not to say it isn't still ambitious)
Lets try to move Girardi, Staal, Nash, Glass
Lets try to keep our RFAs and Yandle
Lets try to add the RHS PPQB
Lets redevelop our bottom 6 from within
Something like:
Kreider/Stepan/Buchnevich
Miller/Brassard/Zuccarello
Klingberg/Lindberg/Hayes
Fast/Hrivik/Jensen
McDonagh/ RHS PPQB (Shattenkirk/Vatanen/Barrie/etc)
Yandle/Klein
Skjei/McIlrath
Lundqvist
Raanta
IF we can move Nash/Staal/Girardi/Glass (BIG IF) this is very doable.
That all is logical and doable but that top 6 will not win us any cups. As much as I like Yandle I do not know if investing in Yandle at 29 is a better move than investing in Stamkos at 26. Stamkos will be 3 mill more but he is a top 5 goal scorer. Getting a top 5 goal scorer at 26 as a UFA is extremely rare in the NHL.