I was anticipating this fire sale at the end of this season with our disappointing exit. Marchy’s exit hurts the worst - he deserved to stay with us until retirement, but 5 years is difficult to pinpoint how he’d perform at the end of that.

I’m most concerned with how this roster is going to fare when Eichel, Stone, and Theo inevitably get injured for 40 games and we don’t have the core depth to carry like we previously did. I wonder if these younger guys will play up to their potential or we’ll just get buried deep in LTIR hell for another season - then we’ll watch our front office make another ridiculous trade and get rid of more prospects to play with cap. Relying on our top end talent is going to be extremely risky this season.

Thoughts?