Edited Jan. 9, 2020 at 4:51 p.m.
needs none of those pieces... try with new players.
My prefered player right now from the
:
Josh Manson - defensive right handed defensman/ good on the pk - we need one of these guys or we rip hard again in the playoffs...
I doubt we can get Toffoli/Kreider so i would go for Bertuzzi/Manta from
if Yzerman feels like he needs lot of picks for the draft in the next 5 years.
We have a couple to give up... + we can send back Raddysh/Katchouk/Joseph/ABB. He can choose who he wants for the rebuild... Or he can try his luck with our newly drafted promising goalie: Alnefelt.
Mantha is a huge player, and those type of guys regressing really fast around 30, so by the time the rebuild is over he is 30.... better to sell for max value now, rather than waste his prime years...
He can win the cup here, if things go well in those 5 years at least once... Tampa is good in every year... a guy like him would worth gold for us, when we will struggle in the playoffs to score 2 goals(instead of our 4.0 regular season average).
I checked our team stat and our shooting % in playoffs drops dramatically --> teams are adopting and defending hard in playoffs vs us --> we need thoughness + defense. We could win the cup with 3.5 goals/game, but unfortunately we should be happy after playoffs is over if it's over 2.5...
GAA = around 3.0 usually = we can't win the cup
But if we add Manson + Mantha = we can go down to like 2.3 GAA(hot goalie Vasilevsky) = only need to score 2.5 goals/game to win on average...
It's that simple... We need to defend like
did all year(that's why the trades = allin for Manson/Mantha) or we just can't have success...
Tyler Johnson will not do too much in playoffs... Kucherov doesn't like to defend+Stamkos making so many bad errors this year in his own zone = need huge support for him... Gourde is too small to be a factor... Unfortunately we were built for offense for the last few years, but now it's time to change the culture. This year should be a good chance, cause lots of teams are having leaks, so we can go to the conference finals... And there anything can happen, then we can get lucky in the finals... If no changes happening, we might lose in 1st-2nd round... We probably can beat
, but it's far from 100% with current roster. It's a good matchup at least, so if we finish top3, we play those teams... But we need to think about vs a possible
matchup... We lost 3 in a row this year vs them...
Granlund + Labanc believe me, they wouldn't help to beat the caps... i would rather get then a guy like Reeves from Vegas... for much cheaper...