Quoting: drambui
they brought dadonov, petry, pearson, desmith and monahan for picks, he never cared. we have a big hole in our fowards group anyway, dont even have a full top 6 right now. You cna bring a guy like mantha on a 1 year deal instead of having a plug like josh anderson playing there.
Our top 6 next year will be Cole-Suzuki-Slaf + Newhook-Dach-Roy. It's pretty damn full lol, again, not to win, but to allow young players to progess and have important ice time. Will Roy and Newhook end up on our top 6 full time? No, Probably not. But while we wait for the game changer in Demidov, they can certainly fill up the hole and get some valuable experience.
Anderson falls out of our top 9 by the way with our third line probably being something like Armia-Dvorak-Gallagher. Of course injury and rotation happen, but, unless he bounces back hard, Anderson is barely in the lineup at this time...
Not signing extra vets also allows us to open the door for guys like Beck, Kapanen, Heineman, or others (for rotation/injury) to surprise and seize ice time/opportunities.
And like, I do think it could be nice to have the good guy on a short term deal to play here, I just don't think it's THAT important. Not moving much is also smart.