I will give it another go!
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Vrana
.........................Van Riemsdyk
Laich
1st 2016
Leafs gain 2 valuable pieces for their rebuild while taking on a veteran leader that help lead the kids. Caps prospect depth get somewhat depleted, but they'll have plenty of time to re-stock since no one in the top-9 is UFA for another two years. And only Williams might be to old to re-sign by then. Barber/Galiev/Brown/Stephenson can surely handle short time stints in the line up for this season in case of injury.
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Johansson
.......................B. Schenn
Philly get a more natural LW, which is a position of weakness for them. Schenn has been moved around in the line up whitout really finding a home, but has looked most comfortable as a C or RW where Philly is pretty set in the top-6. And a line of Johansson-Couturier-Simmonds looks pretty good on paper!
Caps get a 3C with upside and save some cap space. Schenn would fit very nicely with Burakovsky and Wilson on the 3rd line.
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Caps could then ice:
Ovechkin-Kuznetsov-Oshie
Van Riemsdyk-Backstrom-Williams
Burakovsky-Schenn-Wilson
Chimera-Latta-Beagle
Brown-Galiev
Orpik-Carlson
Alzner-Niskanen
Schmidt-Orlov
Chorney
Holtby
Grubauer
https://www.hockeyscap.com/armchair-gm/team/21607
(in this lay out Caps only send a 2nd to Toronto, should be the 1st as I wrote above)
and they'll have 2,6M in cap space as an addition to that line up (which makes me all tingly inside).
If the management feels insecure about icing such a young 3rd line and worry about match ups, they might want one real shut down line. Then they could still probably sign Fehr for a year for the 4th line and move Beagle back to C. If he signs for less then 2M, Caps would still have over 1M in cap space (since on of the kids would get sent down and save another 600k.
That cap space would probably be enough for a veteran D UFA-to-be pick up at the deadline for the 3rd pair.
Schenn and Wilson would need new contracts after the season, but Chimera and Fehr outgoing contracts, plus the likely 3,5M increase of the cap ceiling would easily make that possible.