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 Kr55
Messages: 12873
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
6 Cups
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| inverno76 wrote on Tue, 12 March 2024 09:35 |
The plan has to be win a Cup soon and often, but the oldest team in the league is a bit misleading. The core is still in it's prime. Aside from Hyman (32) Kane (33) and Ekholm (34), it is Henrique (34), Gagner (35), Ryan (38) and Perry (39) who are all on expiring contracts that drive the average up.
**I hope moving Kane in the offseason is a plan that is on the table. I love what he can bring at times, but it is far too inconsistent for his price point and he is a rapidly depreciating asset.
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Mcdavid is 27, Drai is 28 and will be 29 at the start of next season. Crosby was 29 when he was in grizzled vet "yzerman" mode, going on to win his 2nd and 3rd cups playing Conn Smythe level 2-way hockey. They won those cups because they got some youth injections to add a lot of speed to the lineup. Rust, Sheary, Schultz, Hagelin (not that young but fast), Kessel and Bonino were around the same age as Crosby. Guentzel came in the next year and blew the doors off in the playoffs. Good drafting is a wonderful way to get some youth on your team, which we haven't got at all from Holland.
Is what it is I guess. This team is pretty close to what I would envision Ken Holland would make based on his Detroit time, especially his last years in Detroit. Can only hope it's enough.
"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013
"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015
5 x $5,000,000
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