Note that the thread says 2021-2022, but you were asking for next year's roster, so I'm assuming you meant 2020-2021, which is more realistic to project anyway. I think/hope we let the following go: Pageau, Ennis, Namestnikov, Hainsey, Boro, Sabu, Goloubef, Englund, Boedker
I hope we re-sign DeMelo. If not, I think we need to replace him with a top pairing D in the off-season anyway.
Without counting on who we draft this year, and assuming we don't manage to sign any significant FA in the off-season:
Tkachuk - Tierney - Duclair
Balcers - L. Brown - Batherson <- the sink-or-swim line
Paul - White - C. Brown <- the grinders
Abramov - Chlapik/Anisimov - Davidsson <- I think Anisimov stays. We need at least one veteran forward who can play a little.
Ryan?
Norris, Formenton dominating in AHL and call ups in case of injury
Chabot - DeMelo
Wolanin - Zaitsev
Reilly - Jaros
Alsing?
Lajoie - Brannstrom dominating in AHL and call ups in case of injury.
Nilsson
Hogberg
Gustavson - Daccord dominating in AHL and call ups in case of injury
With the roster above we should be in another tank year basically. Hopefully with the growth of our prospects we won't be as close to the bottom though. That would be very depressing.
Now if get lucky and manage to get Lafreniere, I would be in full support of accelerating the rebuild and spending some money on a couple of big FA (knowing full well we won't), one top line forward, and one top pairing D. Then we could suddenly become a playoff bubble team.