TBLeafer said:
I have history around the league at my side, when you look at what the injection of multiple top offensive prospects and what they did for their team's year over year points totals.
You actually don't. You only have history on your side if you only look at specific, cherry picked examples of players who we know were top tier NHL players in hindsight. There are dozens of examples of teams adding multiple high value young players and not significantly improving.
The 2000-2001 Lightning, for instance, already had Vincent Lecavalier and added Brad Richards and Martin St. Louis. All three young players had good seasons. The result? The team improved a whopping 5 points, from 54 to 59 points. They didn't make the playoffs the next year either. They finally did in 2003 which means from the time they drafted both Lecavalier and Richards in the 98 draft it was four full seasons before they made the playoffs.
It wasn't hard to find that example and I could find a bunch more easily(the 2000-2001 Thrashers finished with 60 points, added Kovalchuk and Heatley the following year and finished with 54 points).
But even then you're avoiding, as always, the central point I raised.
You don't know how good Marner and Matthews will be next year. You're, again, assuming that they're going to be as good as some of the duos you listed. When pressed on why you're stating that as a fact, despite the fact that you've already been proven wrong when using any actual measurements like NHLe you reply with "I'm optimistic" or "I have faith" in some nickname you've given to the front office.
Again, the point I'm raising and the one I'm not interested in letting you deflect is the idea that you're constantly telling people that they're wrong in their read of how the team should be built or the value in not making moves without certainty in the prospects on the club and when pressed for why that is we keep coming back to "optimism". For the umpteenth time, optimism is a fine thing but your optimism doesn't make other people wrong. Your personal disposition isn't a counter to rational arguments made by other people.