I think its an interesting potential move by Babcock. Given Babcocks history for line matching, he's obviously got something in mind, what also is interesting is will he deploy differently at home vs the road and whether this year he's more willing to explore different options with the line combinations given the centre depth we now have. Something like this could be interesting:
Home
Hyman-Tavares-Marner against top lines
Marleau-Matthews-Nylander against 2nd pairings
Johnson-Kadri-Kap/Brown against 3rd pairings
If he matches up the Kadri line against top lines, then I suspect he's going Johnson-Kadri-Brown. Even if I would love to see Kappy given more of a chance there. But can you imagine, that would mean one of the Tavares-Marner or Matthews-Nylander line would go up against another team's 3rd line
Away
This is where it gets more interesting, I'm hoping the focus here of line matching is less given we won't have last change and our new found depth. Could he potentially deploy lines this way:
Hyman-Matthews-Nylander (great existing chemistry and can match up against any line)
Marleau-Kadri-Marner (same as above)
Johnson-Tavares-Kappy (could potentially develop great chemistry and match up against any line)
In any case, will be interesting to see, exciting times ahead!