I am also getting nervous. Look at our division. If we are being honest...who are we better than outside of NJ? MAYBE you can say CBJ if you don't buy Bob, but if you do...they may be better. We'll see what we do.
We'll see how the market shakes out, and what we have left. Could be closer to 3 mill we have if we send Powe, Pyatt, and Asham down.
AV:: “Today we'll be looking to add some depth, but I'm getting sense from (scouts, front office) we have lot of good young players”
Concerns me that all these teams in our division are getting much better. Isles, Pens, CBJ, Flyers, Wings all getting better. We better hope and pray these kids are ready now, otherwise we really could end up in last place, or 2nd to last place. Dangerous game we are playing.
Right now from a talent standpoint I'd say we're 6-7th behind Boston, Pitt, Ott, Tor, Wash, Isles/Philly deeper forwards/no goalie, Columbus improving
What about Detroit? And CBJ is better right now IMO...if Bob is for real. Ottawa and Wash not sure about. But clearly in our own division we are in deep water. That division is scary good. Toronto is very good. Boston is very good. Seeing these teams improve, we could be 6 or 7 in the East right now. Not crazy.
Wash lost Ribs. We beat them and we weren't at our best. We are better. Ottawa, we'll see. They get guys back, but also lost some guys. But yeah...6th or 7th right now on paper is not a stretch. Really isn't. Toronto, Det, Pitt, Philly, Boston, CBJ, NYI. Good teams. We could be behind all of them right this second.
Ottawa lost Alf but signed MacArthur so not much of a tradeoff, but they have a good blend of top end players and young prospects. Good D and goalie.
Lost Gonchar also. Good team. I like them. But not sure I can say better period. But they are in the mix with CBJ and the Isles IMO, same area. So yeah...6th or 7th best very possible.
Yup, we're playoff pretenders at this point and if Sather doesn't address this with a significant move and wastes another year of Henrik's prime, shame on him.
They're being suckers for banking on DZ getting there, instead of packaging him with Miller and 1st for a game changing forward like Kane.
but they can still do this type of trade. At this point, seeing how everyone around us got better for next season adding Moore and some 15-20Gl scorer is not going to be enough to be a true SC contender. SOmething significant will have to be done.
