That team doesn't look good, that's a fringe playoff team at best.
I didn’t check the numbers so this is a wild guess, but it’s also a team with somewhere in the vicinity of $15-20M of open cap to greatly upgrade 3LW, the third pair, and 3C if necessary.
Subtracting McCann (1.25), Marleau (0.70), Sheary (3.0), Bjugstad (4.1), Schultz (5.5), Johnson (3.25), and Murray (3.75) opens 21.5M in cap space. Say we trade Simon and Riikola, that’s more than 23M open.
Resign Rodrigues at 2.0 (+0.0), Lafferty at 1.5 (+0.75), and Jarry at 3.75 (+3.0). Bring in Poulin and DeSmith. Call it 18M of cap space. We could seriously chase Hall or Pietrangelo. But we could realistically bring in a guy like Hamonic or Tanev to play with POJ at ~3.5 and a guy like Haula or Toffoli to play on the third line at ~4.5 and still have $10M in cap space to play with now and in the future.
Zucker-Crosby-Poulin/Hornqvist
Guentzel-Malkin-Rust
Haula-Blueger-Hornqvist/Poulin
Lafferty-Rodrigues-Tanev
Johnson
Dumoulin-Letang
Pettersson-Marino
POJ-Tanev
Ruhwedel
Jarry
DeSmith
I think that looks pretty damn good.