How would you feel about Matthews playing wing with Tavares at center?
Matthews / Tavares / Hyman
Johnsson / Kadri / Marner
Marleau / Nylander / Kapanen
seems sort of needless to gamble on Nylander being a center rather than just rolling something more like:
Hyman-Matthews-Nylander
Marleau-Tavares-Marner
Johnsson/Kapanen-Kadri-Brown
on a play style front, Nylander is really good at gaining zone entry along the boards (especially the right boards), turning on the jets to get the defender moving towards his own goal line then changing directions quickly back towards the blueline with the puck under control leaving the defender moving in the wrong direction and giving Nylander lots of space to make a pass to the middle somewhere, and Matthews is one of the better players in the league at working inside the home plate area as a finisher. So personally I think it makes more sense to keep Matthews in the middle of the ice and Nylander on the RW, and that combo works well together because Nylander ends up gaining the zone and feeding the puck into the middle where Matthews is to generate chances
JT and Matthews are stylistically similar as well, both high volume shooters from high danger areas, so there might be a bit of a diminished return by putting them together - only so much HD area possession to go around
I am also pretty optimistic on Nylander's chances of being a center, just don't see the point of moving a sure-thing center to the wing to find out