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LOL What? U must be trolling. When you take a team's first two picks in the last three or four drafts and "don't consider them prospects" then yeah, the prospect pool is going to look "weak". Also, you forgot Rasmussen Also, you forgot Cholowski

thank you. now I remember, after our 1-7-2 start we had a 11-6-2 stretch which made me think that 18/19 wouldn´t be as bad as feared until we lost 6-2 in Washington and never got on track again , but at least a strong finish to the season

Got me interested, so... Points earned over the course of the season:

I totally agree with you to be aware of that, but it´s a light at the end of the tunnel. Last season we started real bad and never got out of that hole. I don´t have the numbers, but would guess that we were not that far off of a playoff position if you take the first 20 games away and in Larkin,AA,Mantha and Bert you have players which have taken significant steps and any of the four looks better to me than any of the aforementioned 3. Nyquist and Tatar just reached their potential quite early but are still good players. As this is the 2020 thread and with 28 unsigned prospects (10 of them 2nd and 3rd round picks), at least 10 promising prospects signed but currently not on the roster, 9 picks in 2020 (5 in the first three rounds), the eventually coming extra picks at the deadline and with continued growth I am really optimistic for 20/21.

Seattle Soundgardens done.

In case you missed it the streak ended 3 years ago. Even if you want to say that's when the rebuild started (which means ignoring that the final years of the streak produced AA, Larkin, Mantha, Bert, Cholowski, and Hronek), we should still be at the point where we're hoping to turn the corner. Those horrible contracts are not hurting us, and it could be argued that they never have. We have ~$15M in cap space right now, even after giving $6M to Flip and Nemeth. We could have afforded Trouba and Panarin. We could have afforded Tavares last year. Could have afforded Stamkos had he hit UFA a few years back. Even if those contracts really were untradeable, it wouldn't matter. Now, I'm not criticizing Yzerman for not signing Panarin. Not really criticizing him at all for that matter. More just saying that changing horses mid-stream is generally a bad thing. It would be more palatable if I thought the rebuild was going poorly, but it wasn't. Would have been better if it had happened three years ago even. It wasn't long ago that Devellano said we wanted to do something to accelerate the rebuild. It seems what he really meant was just hiring Yzerman to make the fans shut up. Seems we set the rebuild back, or paused it at least, for the sake of fan appeasement, while also replacing our GM with someone who's probably not as good.

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