No. People think tanking is worth it because you can get the next messiah #1 overall to lead the team to the promise land, in actuality you hurt the development of your young guys by creating a losing environment and only have a what %17 chance of picking 1st and even then there is no guarantee one player can turn your team around. Look at McDavid, best player in the world and his team still can’t get past the first round. Mentality should always be to win, never tank on purpose.

It’s about building with our youths. And trading big anchor contracts. We won’t be competing . No reason to keep price. We need elite talent level players. We won’t get them without high picks. And we also need to give our young players a chance by giving them a roster spot .

Easy no, Price is damaged goods.

No, he will be back this season .

Price isn't worth that, besides the Oilers don't have cap hit of 88m.

I better copy this. Exactly what I've been trying to say

Im not going to bother advocating for or against attack. Having Bedard, Michkov, Fantilli, Yager etc... would be awesome to add to Suzuki and Caufield. sure you can add a massive free agent or two in a couple of years but thats a whole different conversation

this is the point im trying to adress

Crosby 3 cups finished 29 in 2005-06
Ovechkin 1 cup finnshed 27 and 27 from 2005-07
kopitar 2 cups finished 28,30,26 from 2006-09
Bergeron 1 cup finished 25,23 from 2005-07
and mackinon no cups but superstar finished 21,21,30 from 2014-17

You can't win unless you learn how to lose
-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

you can argue for or agasint tanking to try and land one of Bedard and michkov who look like stars in the making or fantilli or Yager or many others next year to add to this young core

but I certainly don't agree that having young kids experience a bad season or two will ruin their careers.

to me these kids need to be playing big minutes and be able to make mistakes and make great plays to truly learn and then you can start to build a winning team around them

Even on one knee Price is better then anyone of your goalie.

Harris is NHL ready
Not Barron

And do not sign Romanov long terms
If Guhle and Harris becomes better than Romy, you don’t want a 4M dman playing on your 3rd pairing

I agree with you Barron is not NHL ready. This is why he’s on the 4th pairing Def (so sent down to AHL).

Rommy will be an excellent asset at 4m$, no matter whats the result of Ghule and Harris