we miss leo k
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I don't think the values are awful in the trades(even if I wouldn't personally do them), I just think that you haven't fixed the Isles biggest problem here - there's no real scoring touch behind Nelson/Lee/Barzal, and maybe Wahlstrom. Kerfoot's career high is 19 goal back in his rookie season; Ryan Donato might've scored the first ever goal for the Kraken but he hasn't scored that many others, either. The debate around Josh Anderson's scoring ability has been beaten to death, but here we go again: he's got one 20 goal season in his career, and giving him 3rd line minutes with Pageau & Donato means he probably doesn't have too many more in his future.
Just not enough firepower here - this is a team that's going to have to grind out a ton of 3-2 games and I don't think that's how you want to spend an 82 game regular season.