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Kampf, a guy that can barely get 30 pts at 2C? ZAR at 3LW? Mete, Krall, Benn, Kalgren, etc... are weak at best and should be in AHL or press box.
Just a bit of a mess.
They need to play defense. And if they can;t/won;t, then they need to stop monkeying around and play their top 6 offensive forwards in their top 6. The team dubas and keefe created is there or will be soon (off LTIR) and maybe its flawed, but lets not fool ourselves into thinking the scrubs are better.
This is the old brown horse Dubas and Keefe rode in on, so lets stop pretending its a unicorn. This team is built for its top 6 to score and the rest of the team is an afterthought.
Bunting or Robertson - Matthews - Marner
kerfoot - Tavares - Nylander
(the rest of the forwards are filler, I mean how else can you look at 7 forwards making less than 10mil collectively)
As far as the defense and goal, they're equally screw'd there, reilly/sandin/liljegren are finesse puck movers, not crease clearers/hitters/physical guys, which leaves rather okay (but not quick, not offensive, not physical) giordano, brodie, holl to stay in front of net.
keefe has a offensive system, dubas has crweated/built the team, but changing those 2 out won;t fix whats wrong.