Babs isn't going to run a line that is pure skill like your first line. He'll break them into pairings of one of our centers (Matthews, JT, Kadri), and one of our skill wingers (Panarin, Nylander, Marner), and then grit/forechecking (Hyman, Marleau, Brown/Kapanen). Due to position, Kapanen or Brown will be with Panarin, as they are the RWers (although Hyman can shift sides, he's a right shot).
We had Hyman and Komarov getting more minutes than Marner, Nylander and JVR at many points last year. Babs will stick to his system, its pretty clear how he wants the team constructed. If he has a line that is all skill, then he will tend to shelter it heavily, which gets that line less minutes, like he did with JVR-Bozak-Marner.
Panarin has always been extremely sheltered zone-start wise, especially in Chicago. I just don't see Babs heavily altering the formula he has used most of his career. He likes a grunt/grinder on every line, and if he doesn't have that, he will tend to shelter the line which leads to less minutes anyway.
Well, that why I said Zone-start wise, he still faced relatively high level of comp by QOC metrics. But, when Qunneville is using you 80% to 20% D-zone starts in the offensive zone at 5v5, which he did one year that is extreme usage by NHL standards.
That was the most time he's had O-zone starts in his career. Historically, Marchard splits are 52-48. But, Panarin's use in Chicago was extreme by OZS standards. Only star players I can think of who got similar usage historically was the Sedins and Patrick Kane. And, even then Kane never broke the 70% OZS% in his career. This year Panarin saw more balanced usage but it was still heavy Ozone starts.
Maybe you are right, but Babcock doesn't historically coach like that. He seems to have a pretty set way on how he wants line-ups constructed. Even with team Canada he rolls out line-ups like that. I'm not saying what I think would or wouldn't work, what I am saying his how Babcock has historically set his line-ups up, and what he is most likely to do.
