now was that so hard,everybody played with hearth,its the only way when you lack talent,and yesterday was a good effort from everyone on the team.
now i see a lot of talk about the 5 or 6 players we should keep, i agree with what Eager Beaver said so here are mine Suzuki, Caulfield, Drouin, Anderson, Evans and Romanov' saying that i don't expect to win now but in 4 to 5 years, yes Toffolli had a great year last year and he has a decent contract just over 4m for a couple of years so imagine what a contender will give for him at the trading deadline, you could probably get their best prospect and a draft pic that's how we got Suzuki,has much has i love Gallagher you can surely get the same for him,every team needs depth at defense you can get good prospects for Petry,Chariot,or Edmundson, i don't think we could get anything for Weber anymore and i don,t know if any team would be interested in Price but i would trade him for anything decent and for the rest you can get draft pics for them, then you will have a young team with a couple of good prospects and you should have a lot of money so in a couple of years from now hopefully all the prospects you got from trade and draft pics you should have a few to add on to what you have and money to bye what you need. Now don;t give me this shit about how bad we draft pic and how bad we bring up prospects maybe its time to get rid of our scouting team also, it's never too late to do good the past is the past you can't change anything let's look at the future.
I'm not a general manager it's just my view on this and i know people are going to argue who i want to keep, Suzuki is a no brainer, Caulfield is a young prospect i'm hoping for the future, Drouin is not my favorite player but he is the only one who can carry the puck and make a decent pass, someone as to make a pass for you to score, Anderson well every team needs a big strong fast player, power forward, Romanov again young with good flashes of talent hoping for the future, and Evans a good young fourth line center man.
I'm not saying any of these players would be on a first line of any other team,but you have to start with what you think can still help in 3 years from now and for me all the rest will be have bins by then.