Like most of you, I'm expecting a Qpac win tonight but hoping differently. This would be 23 losses. Setting up an interesting off season. With the feasibility study of HFH and a new AD, as some of us have discussed this could be an opportunity for a fresh start. Also, besides the known departures, I'm not very confident that Muzzati and Watson stay. It would give a new regime the ability to configure a roster from scratch. We are risking even more irrelevance if we continue down this path. The ball is firmly in Bowers lap. I was struck again last night by the disparity in SOG and Face off outcomes.I agree with much of this. However, for me, Lee is a coin flip in the cost-benefit analysis. He has legit speed and skill, but as has been agonizingly well documented on this forum, he has a keen knack for taking bad penalties in bad areas at bad moments in games. His situational intelligence needs an extreme makeover.
That said, the last half of your final sentence lays out the ultimate question... "assuming the retention is there." In today's portal reality, that isn't an assumption I can make. Nine of will know what the roster will look like until 5 or so months from now.