Quoting: Jdfitz77
My (realistic?) wishlist for the rest of the offseason:
1- goalie upgrade over Hutton, would love Kuemper
2- sign Hoffman at around 5mil, wed have to move out Montour though (maybe in the goalie trade)
3- bring back Pilut cheaply
Hall-Eichel-Reinhart
Skinner-Staal-Hoffman
Olofsson-Eakin-Cozens
Girgs/Okposo/etc etc etc for 4th line defensive duty
Dahlin-Risto
McCabe-Jokiharju
Pilut-Miller
-Irwin
Kuemper
-Ullmark
That’s a definite playoff team imo
And if Kuemper does his thing, we might be able to make some noise in the playoffs
Well we can certainly plan for the best, and of course adding Kuemper and Hoffman would be a dream team that as you say would really rock.
IMO the team underperformed last year.
With Hall, Staal, Kahun, Cozens, Mittelstadt I see a really good team.
We need a better PK coach, the team is too passive.
Keep the puck out of the defensive zone, who knows what will happen.
Once the season starts, I will need to meet you face to face and discuss hockey.
Let's presume Hoffman signs elsewhere.
I think we need to put Mittelstadt into the line up.
Eakin had only one more goal than Casey last year, but it took him an extra 18 games.
Here is a fun fact, look at Eakin's last four years his goals, ass pts per game are 0.138 0.2 0.3375
Then look at Casey's career of 114 games and his goals, ass pts per game are 0.154 0.202 0.356
Casey played fourth line minutes with third line players and produced third line output.
Eakin's stats are somewhat inflated as he had one really good year in his last 4, take out that year, his offense is a little better than Larsson with many more OZ starts.
IMO Hall and Eichel are playmakers while Reinhart is for support.
So that line would have two playmakers and no true sniper.
Add Mittelstadt, sign a less expensive Kahun, and give Hall his own line to run:
Skinner-Eichel-Reinhart
Hall-Staal-Olofsson
Kahun/Mittelstadt-Cozens-Okposo
Girgenson-Eakin-Kahun/Thompson
I love fun facts, only Jack, Victor and Sam scored more pts/min than Kyle.
But those three were nor playing with the scoring machines of Girgenson and Larsson.
My opinion based on stats Cozens will be much better than Reinhart and putting him at #3 center would groom him to move up.
It would also give the team a chance to see if Staal has a replacement and could be traded away at the TDL.
But who knows what Krueger will do, after all he thought Sobotka was a top six forward.