Quoting: mhockey91
Their top 6 and top 4 is still so good. Most people count them as a playoff team. Only real weakness is the team is missing ONE more third liner since I’m fine rolling the dice between Poulin/Jano/Erod/Lafferty for one of the spots. If the third line struggles, GMJR will prolly use that second round pick to improve the third line. I think we’ll be fine
IDK why Pens fans think they will be fine??
1)- With how compacted the season is, We have a career AHL Goalie that could get 20-25 starts behind a 1st yr Starter and probably will be the difference in making & not making playoffs.
***** REMEMBER we are 1 play away from having 2 Goalies i wouldn't trust on an AHL team as our Goalies in DeSmith & Lagace.... Now that could be some funny hockey, MIN should be very happy
2)- We have a good Top 6 & 5 good Dmen & are counting on a 33 & 34yr old Sid & Geno to carry this team, Yikes
3)- We have 3 NHL caliber bottom 6 players, McCann, Blueger, & Turbo w/ 34- #13 to #14 Forwards. (We have 1- 3rd line player, when GMJR said at seasons end, #1 priority is fixing the 3rd line????)
4)- We are 1- Sid or Geno injury away from having Jankowski as the #2 Center, a guy that was replaced by Lucic at 4C in playoffs, then was replaced in line up by Zack Rinaldo for rest of playoffs...
Yes that same Zack Rinaldo .... Now how funny is that?
5)- We dont have 1 physical player & have to play BOS, WASH, PHI, NYI for like 33 of the 56 games.... We are going to get beat up non-stop & need Sid & Geno to do all the fighting bc we have the softest team
in the history of NHL hockey.
** If this is the roster we go into season with I'd say the best case scenario is 5th place & worst case is 7th place, I see the 19'-20' SJS team that stars are too old & if they get injured we have no depth & we give away a Lottery pick in Top 5.