I thought about it too, but is there really room? Mike Green/Trevor Daley/Jonathan Ericsson/Danny DeKeyser/Filip Hronek/Madison Bowey.
That's all without resigning Kronwall, or signing/trading for anyone else, and assuming Cholowski/Kaski don't push for a place in the line-up.
I feel like a lot of things have to go right for Hicketts to be a Red Wing come October. An I guess the lineup might look more realistic like this. Either way the point of the post/line up was to give younger guys bigger roles in the AHL vs coming to the NHL and developing maybe at a slower rate with less ice time and lower roles on the team.
AHL:
Matt Puempel – (A)Carter Camper – Martin Frk
Michael Rasmussen – Joe Valeneo – Filip Zadina
Ryan Kuffner – Wade Megan – Chris Terry
Givani Smith– Dominic Turgeon – (C)Matthew Ford
Oliwer Kaski – Dennis Cholowski
Vili Saarijarvi – (A)Brain Lashoff
Gustav Lindstrom – Joe Hicketts
Dylan McIlrath
Filip Larsson
Patrik Rybar