Jeez thats a good team.

I won’t tell you how exhausting this is.

We know chia sucked.

ChiarelliHolland managing McDavid's prime reminds me of the Vonnegut short story where everyone had an impediment to offset their positive qualities

Beautiful ballet dancers wearing a ball & chain etc.

It friggin sucks so much

Marino is going nowhere.

Get marino off there he didnt want to sign in edmonton so its not redoable. nudge drai and yamo were the best line in hockey last year so its a crime if they aren't together. a redo would have mathew Tkachuk on mcdavids left wing. Eberle still should be strome and strome should be 3C

The opportunity cost of the Benson pick was huge too with it being obvious DeBrincat & Girard were going to be good NHLers just dropping wrongly due to size

May as well add one of them to the roster here

Even without the McDavid boost Debrincat hits 70 points in both DY and D-1 which is 1st round level

Too bad a team like that isn't remotely plausible in the salary cap era, Noway could Edmonton sustain that kind of team in the salary cap era due to increases in player salaries.

Why did you word that so harshly when it's so minor

Very reasonable to not remember something like that

Ah yes who could forget where they were the day a young John Marino said he didn't want to sign in Edmonton... what kind of person is harsh due to that

It is you just need to emphasize the quality bargain free agents every season like Pirri, Czarnik, etc. and draft well so the ELCs are always there to help out

Also swapping established mature players for young cheap players who provide similar quality

Adam Larsson / Slater Koekkoek comes to mind

Not to mention avoiding unwise contracts, which should be the norm anyway, just requires discipline

The way Poile managed the early Preds teams is a good template, he basically built a 50 win team from scratch, they were provided so little from the league

While you missed out on Barzal by trading that pick - with your draft history for picks outside of the top 10 it is highly questionable if you would have chosen Barzal had you kept that pick hehe.

Yeah, if chia was GM he would have picked Erickson Ek. But this is based on chia NOT being GM.

I think he saying, an Edmonton re-do. So they don’t trade the rights to Marino again. They re-sign him. He was drafted by Edmonton.