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Holland has $7m in cap space and 8 players to sign. Noteable free agents are Puljujärvi and Yamamoto as RFA´s and Kane is UFA. Their offense will be a lot worse without some Holland magic and I doubt he has any. The Avs are a far more complete team and will win the series 4-2. They are a lot closer to become a dynasty than the Oilers. Holland can call himself a lucky b*stard that he inherited that amount of talent but the end product will be a disappointment.

Damn this looks f*cking good - nice surprise at the end https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyuA_NetTv4

I'm getting the higher ceiling from the fact that Yzerman drafted him. Clearly, he and his scouting staff think he has a higher ceiling as well. Also, the ceiling has is not how good a prospect is now. Ceilings are based on overall potential. The reality is none of us know who will be better when all is said and done.

You guys are wrong about Holland

So basically Holland didn't wanna do the legwork of building a core, so wanted to go inherit one so he can further pad his resume? Multiple teams made offers to Kane. Kane chose Edmonton. I'd say that is more the luck of having guys like McDavid to play with than Holland being genius. Holland inherits high-end talent to win. I'll give him all the credit in the world for 2008, but that's about it. 2002 happened because players gave up salary to make it work.

Really hoping Soderblom makes the team. The potential matchup issues this kid is going to cause for other teams is going to be tremendous. Imagine you staple him to the top line with Larkin. Opposing teams won't be able to deploy their smallish top Dmen against our top forward line. Dmen like Hughes, Makar, Krug, etc. They wont be able to handle his sheer size and strength. As long as this kid isnt timid. Doesnt have to be mean. Just not timid. Not to mention, this isnt a Rasmussen situation either. This kid has way more skill AND benches a whopping 300 lbs. Other teams will be forced to deploy their bigger, stronger, slower Dmen against our top line. Guys like Zadorov, Chara, Oleksiak, etc. This could be a scoring buffet for our top line. Vrana - Larkin - Soderblom Bertuzzi - UFA - Raymond All of the sudden we have a deep top 6. Fabbri - Rasmussen/Veleno/Suter - Berggren And a 3rd scoring line ready to come into its own. If SY can sign some decent Dmen and Eddog performs as billed - we could have an exciting season ahead of us.

That would be a mistake I think. You already have 2 studs on D. Giving up assets to trade up and grab another one, when you have a gaping hole at 2C, doesnt make sense to me. Even if SY goes BPA at 8, and its a dman, at least he isnt wasting assets to trade up for more of what he already has.