Seems fair. I am not as excited about our future 3+ years from now as I was a couple years ago. I still think we have a good roster that’ll be good for a couple more years but I’m not sure how well the young talent will develop. For example I think MTL, SJ and CHI are pretty optimistic about their future.
As long as Hellebuyck is Vezinabuyck we’re a playoff contender. If he slips as the core ages with no true top end prospects coming up it could get ugly pretty quick.
The Rangers finished fifth in their division last year. I am not sure their present rating should be this high, given they made no substantial offseason moves.
Minnesota is a bit high, Vancouver feels low. They barely missed the playoffs last year.
But we are definitely win now, and our prospect cupboard is thin because we are always buying at the deadline and trading picks away, and then not playing our prospects anyways.
It’s a fair comparison. I think the Jets need to put prospects in over plugs to keep us in the window.
Pray one of our C prospects develop into an elite talent
The Wild and NoMans Land. Iconic.
The only two I disagree with are Detroit and Vegas. Detroit any close to opening a window and are terrible. Vegas just smashes down the window and buys any player to stay as a competitor.
Detroit’s window is opening? Did they make 6 upgrades over the offseason that I didn’t hear about? They should be in between Buffalo and St Louis
An interesting graph. Winnipeg bucking the expected trend.
In fact, a lot of teams bucking that expected trend. I wonder if you added up the vectors you’d actually get something that resembled the cycle The Athletic has imposed on the chart.
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Seems fair. I am not as excited about our future 3+ years from now as I was a couple years ago. I still think we have a good roster that’ll be good for a couple more years but I’m not sure how well the young talent will develop. For example I think MTL, SJ and CHI are pretty optimistic about their future.
As long as Hellebuyck is Vezinabuyck we’re a playoff contender. If he slips as the core ages with no true top end prospects coming up it could get ugly pretty quick.
The Rangers finished fifth in their division last year. I am not sure their present rating should be this high, given they made no substantial offseason moves.
Minnesota is a bit high, Vancouver feels low. They barely missed the playoffs last year.
But we are definitely win now, and our prospect cupboard is thin because we are always buying at the deadline and trading picks away, and then not playing our prospects anyways.
It’s a fair comparison. I think the Jets need to put prospects in over plugs to keep us in the window.
Pray one of our C prospects develop into an elite talent
The Wild and NoMans Land. Iconic.
The only two I disagree with are Detroit and Vegas. Detroit any close to opening a window and are terrible. Vegas just smashes down the window and buys any player to stay as a competitor.
Detroit’s window is opening? Did they make 6 upgrades over the offseason that I didn’t hear about? They should be in between Buffalo and St Louis
An interesting graph. Winnipeg bucking the expected trend.
In fact, a lot of teams bucking that expected trend. I wonder if you added up the vectors you’d actually get something that resembled the cycle The Athletic has imposed on the chart.