You can only have 50 guys under contract. I have no idea where they are with that number but eventually they could get there with all the 1st, 2nd and 3rd round guys taken in successive years. Depth is great and necessary but at some point you hit diminishing returns.
I’m pretty sure they know the draft board at this time. Trading up in the draft is kind of hard, so I’m glad they did. And the surplus picks would create a logjam of filler type players eventually. They can still trade a pick or two for veteran help.
Such a collision of ignorance. Security theater at sporting events, privileged participants assuming the rules don’t apply to them, overzealous cops with a hard on for action
They need to trade some of their surplus draft picks for guys.
They can afford to overpay a 3 year contract (welcome back Patrick), but can’t really go big on any term beyond that.
There’s just about zero chance they’ll be good next year. We’ll be lucky if they have a proper 1st line. They might battle for a playoff slot 25/26 season.