Addition by Subtraction

[JoeSchmoe]

I know it's been touched on many times as part of other threads, but I wanted a full discussion on the addition by subtraction for next year's roster. We dropped quite a four boat anchors and by my math we picked up one.

Clifton

Lafferty

Cozens

Gilbert

I feel like Danforth is the only new guy we got that will be drag on the team (I've got no idea what they were thinking with him). 

How much does losing these guys improve our goal differential? 

[PerreaultForever]

Can't agree with the depiction of these players as anchors. 

Lafferty and Gilbert were exactly what they were. Bottom players and extras. Expecting more was stupid.

Clifton lost his game playing in an unstructured system. I said this might happen when we signed him. He always had the tendency to run around and try to over step and then get caught out of position. In this chaotic system he ended up floundering. We broke him. 

Cozens? An anchor? Let's see how Ottawa goes. Quinn's still an anchor until he isn't. Same for Samuelsson.