I don't want to rebuild. I want to win the Cup this year.
I just haven't heard a plausible solution from literally anyone on these boards on how this team can get back to Cup contention without rebuilding. To wit:
- The only guys on this team with any meaningful value are Horvat, Sorokin, Barzal, Dobson, Varlamov, and Nelson.
- All the other big contracts would require giving up valubale assets to get rid of.
- The team is old.
- There is no elite talent outside of Dobson.
- The organization has no additional picks.
- They're bad, but not bad enough to draft where you usually can draft elite talent...
- ...When their GM doesn't give away 1st round picks for middling talent.
- There's basically no cap space to add a top player next season (much less 2).
- And there's literally zero farm system.
...But several here keep saying that "Sorokin, Barzal, Dobson, and Horvat is an excellent core"...Totally ignoring the fact that with those guys the Isles are bottom 10 in win %, goals scored, goals against, goal differential, and going to miss the playoffs in a league where half the league makes it.
It may be ugly on these boards, but I promise the roster/farm system is so much uglier...And yet we have a GM who cannot/refuses to stop investing futures into this Titanic of a roster he's created.