Great point, yeah those teams made the playoffs but they had zero depth to make any sort of a run. If we can stay the course, remain patient, and let our young guys develop I think 2-3 years from now we’ll see quality depth all over the place.
Looking strictly at “new” young guys we got Kasper, Edvinnson, Johansson, Soderblom up now, they should continue to improve.
For forwards we have so many guys that once developed can be legitimate contributors. We have Danielson (True Center), Lombardi (Center), Kisskanen, Buch (the Russian), Mazur, & MBN (power forward). Two goalie prospects that appear to be trending in a good direction. ASP who is a Makar lite type on the blue line.
Help is indeed on the way, it’s just going to take some time and patience
It’s funny to watch the elite teams in the division like Florida, Toronto, and Tampa all make very smart trades and then watch Yzerman try and build this “team”. Detroit has zero chance as long as Yzerman is GM. They are light years behind the 3 teams mentioned.
Brad Treliving came in and completely revamped the Leafs blue line adding a ton of size. He signed Anthony Stolarz for like 2.5 million a year and he is better than any goalie that Yzerman has signed or traded for. There should be zero excuses for Yzerman when you watch how the top GMs operate.
You do tend to get emotional and complain. Thats what fans do. We all do it. BUT there qre legit reasons why the wings are what they are…and the emotional “nah, f that, yzerman sucks” is shortsighted…
As he been good with FA. Finding a goaltender, finding a def? He hasn’t hit on any fa. Besides Kane has been pretty good. DeBrincat has been pretty good, and the only trade he won on
Like i said already. Players know illitch isnt his dad and sucks. You habe to spend the money u have on cap. It’s clear that FA are leary…AND illitch doesnt want to pay top dollar for the difference makers. So you fill out your roster with guys willing to come and who will take less…CATwas a hometown kid. He wanted to be here.
You can’t say a gm who built a stanley cup winning roster in tampa suddenly sucks at his job…if daddy illitch was still around he would have brought yzerman home sooner, he said before he died it was a mistake letting him go, ans he would have paid for the big guns…and we would be winning. We as a fan base aren’t used to prospects taking 2-3 years to mature. We are used to fedorov’s and the like hitting the ground running.
