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Don't Hold The Door
You can't go wrong with just staying put. Exposing out young players to the NHL will pay dividends down the road like it did with Condra, Karlsson, Greening etc. It gives more time for assets to raise their stock by going from prospects to young NHLers. Gives us more information to go on as well to address needs and strengths.
I'm all for a move to make us better now and in the future but it has to be the right player and the right circumstances like Turris.
What I expect Murray to do this summer is exploit our cap situation. We can afford to go after a Perry and make deals with cap strapped teams. I want to see us swing a deal like Atlanta did with Chicago for Ladd and Buff; like Vancouver did with San Jose for Ehrhoff.
New York, San Jose, Philadelphia, Vancouver, Chicago and possibly Minnesota will need relief. We could potentially pick up players like Luke Schenn, Nik Grossman, Scott Hatnell, Wayne Simmonds, Chris Tanev, Alex Burrows, Derek Stepan, Carl Hagelin, Marc Staal, Patrick Marleau etc for under market value asset-wise since these teams can't realistically keep everyone with the cap coming down.
Assuming Murray could use primarily long term prospects and cap space to acquire a top 4 D and a quality top 6 player along with reasonable progression from a few of our young players we could be a Cup contending team and the 3 year rebuil would be complete. The primary core is in place, now it's up to management to get the proper complementary players. It'll be a lot easier in the offseason.
I'm all for a move to make us better now and in the future but it has to be the right player and the right circumstances like Turris.
What I expect Murray to do this summer is exploit our cap situation. We can afford to go after a Perry and make deals with cap strapped teams. I want to see us swing a deal like Atlanta did with Chicago for Ladd and Buff; like Vancouver did with San Jose for Ehrhoff.
New York, San Jose, Philadelphia, Vancouver, Chicago and possibly Minnesota will need relief. We could potentially pick up players like Luke Schenn, Nik Grossman, Scott Hatnell, Wayne Simmonds, Chris Tanev, Alex Burrows, Derek Stepan, Carl Hagelin, Marc Staal, Patrick Marleau etc for under market value asset-wise since these teams can't realistically keep everyone with the cap coming down.
Assuming Murray could use primarily long term prospects and cap space to acquire a top 4 D and a quality top 6 player along with reasonable progression from a few of our young players we could be a Cup contending team and the 3 year rebuil would be complete. The primary core is in place, now it's up to management to get the proper complementary players. It'll be a lot easier in the offseason.