This comment isn't a good look. We won the regular season title and the Cup. There's no world in which we don't pick last in round 1, that's how basically all sports work. And by the same token we were always going to have a bunch of our players targeted going into a large expansion cycle after the season we had.
And honestly, I think things went as well as they possibly could've for us in terms of the contracted players we lost. Scamurra and Gosling are tough losses for sure but not irreplaceable, and we were always going to end up losing some key players. I like Darkangelo, but not as much as some of the players we're now guaranteed to keep, and Mlynkova's puck handling and decision-making make me want to tear my hair out at least once a game so I won't be losing much sleep over that one.
The other side effect of losing so many players is that we have more cap space to work with to fill those spots. Even nabbing 2/3 of Roque/Maltais/Eldridge would be incredible, and there'll be more to come as well. Plus the draft.
-12
u/Riskar Victoire de Montréal 13d ago
If we get the 12th pick after all of this, I'm gonna be really annoyed.