Avs fan here! We face a few major hurdles going into the offseason
Gabriel Landeskog (our 1C) is out of commission for the full season
JT Compher (our 3C) is gonna be looking for big money
We have not yet found a viable replacement for Kadri (our former 2C)
Long story short... we don't have any centers.
The bright side is that JT Compher is likely to underperform any contract we sign with him, but trading him to a team that's willing to develop a player over the long run could get us a great return... so picking up someone like Jonathan Toews or Kirby Dach seems like a real possbility.
In addition, the fact that we know that Landeskog is out could benefit us immensely... it frees up $7 million in cap space that we can use on a serviceable 1C, such as Ryan O'Reilly. Since the cap is expected to skyrocket going in to the 2024-2025 season, we might even be able to keep both Landeskog and the new guy.
Finally we still have a solid core and a promising young goalie who likes playing for us. I think the 23-24 season will go well for us overall.
(Blues fan) we desperately need to offload one or some of our underperforming, overpaid D-man. Leddy or Krug are probably top of my list, with Scandella also needing to go but unlikely to have many buyers. I'd also like to add a goalscorer but defense is the priority.
He had better defenders with him to help cover his pressing into the offensive zone. The Blues defense was absolutely brutal last season. Parayko seemed lost out there and I think that had a big ripple effect on the whole D core.
Personally I'd rather get rid of colt. I was the biggest colt apologist for forever, but he's just plain bad. He plays like he's 5'4 and weighs 120lbs when his size should be one of his greatest assets. Nothing is going to change that.
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