MR4
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What I'm praying for next season
Leivo-Matthews-Marner (biggest issue of the MM pair was not enough good board play, Leivo is one of the best)
Marleau-Nylander-Kapanen (Marleau who is suited to north-south speed game teaches Nylander the C game while having a W with chemistry - and top 10 league-wide speed)
Hyman-Kadri-Brown (IMO this should replicate the results of the line with Komarov last year)
Martin-Aaltonen-Johnsson (Need Johnsson & Aaltonen up, let them replace top 9 injuries & get Johnsson special teams minutes when possible)
Rielly-X
Dermott-Zaitsev
Gardiner-Hainsey *
Borgman-Carrick
*(Unsure if I want to hold onto Gardiner for another year for the LD depth but think he's not brought back after next season, same with Hainsey in regards to only 1 more season)
Andersen-Pickard/Sparks (Battle for backup in preseason and trade/waive the loser)
So that leaves a group of Komarov, Moore, JVR, Bozak, Polak, McBackup, and Soshnikov leaving and only 1 player needed to acquire. Personally think if you sold all 7 players at the TD, it definitely should bring back enough value in picks/prospects to acquire someone like Tanev to solidify our top pair at the draft/offseason and start truly contending in the next year, since no way are we coming out of our division that has 2 of the top 3 teams in the league in it who will likely be big buyers as well. Could maybe toss Johnsson in the trade as well depending on the quality of dman but personally would rather sell high on Brown over trading Johnsson to save assets as I think Johnsson should become a Brown-type player.
Leivo-Matthews-Marner (biggest issue of the MM pair was not enough good board play, Leivo is one of the best)
Marleau-Nylander-Kapanen (Marleau who is suited to north-south speed game teaches Nylander the C game while having a W with chemistry - and top 10 league-wide speed)
Hyman-Kadri-Brown (IMO this should replicate the results of the line with Komarov last year)
Martin-Aaltonen-Johnsson (Need Johnsson & Aaltonen up, let them replace top 9 injuries & get Johnsson special teams minutes when possible)
Rielly-X
Dermott-Zaitsev
Gardiner-Hainsey *
Borgman-Carrick
*(Unsure if I want to hold onto Gardiner for another year for the LD depth but think he's not brought back after next season, same with Hainsey in regards to only 1 more season)
Andersen-Pickard/Sparks (Battle for backup in preseason and trade/waive the loser)
So that leaves a group of Komarov, Moore, JVR, Bozak, Polak, McBackup, and Soshnikov leaving and only 1 player needed to acquire. Personally think if you sold all 7 players at the TD, it definitely should bring back enough value in picks/prospects to acquire someone like Tanev to solidify our top pair at the draft/offseason and start truly contending in the next year, since no way are we coming out of our division that has 2 of the top 3 teams in the league in it who will likely be big buyers as well. Could maybe toss Johnsson in the trade as well depending on the quality of dman but personally would rather sell high on Brown over trading Johnsson to save assets as I think Johnsson should become a Brown-type player.
Personally disagree. I think Aaltonen should be good enough to be a Bozak level C next year, so even with a Matthews injury, Nylander-Kadri-Aaltonen isn't the worst centre lineup. If another of the top 3 Cs get injured, then you could still put Marleau in their place and have one of the plenty kids waiting put on the wing.Our center depth with Willy is bad. Without him, it looks dreadful. Note that I'm talking about depth here, obviously Matthews and Kadri is a very good top two. But behind them there'd be nothing but guys who fight for the #4C spot.
Even with Willy as center, I'm not comfortable with our center depth.