Our worst ES playoff players were Lehtera, Read, Lindblom, Filppula, Manning and Gudas, with MacDonald as an honorable mention.
Read, Filppula and Manning are gone, Weise and Leier have one foot out the door, Weal isn't far behind.
Lehtera and MacDonald are on the bubble.
Simmonds was one of our better players, with Couts, Provorov and Laughton
Ghost, Giroux, Raffl and Voracek didn't step up.
The kiddie corp trio of TK, Patrick and Sanheim were meh.
But Lehtera was part of a PK unit that played very well against the league's best power play.
Lehtera may have been our best PK guy in that series.
If Laughton has to play 3C, I could see Raffl - Lehtera - NAK on the 4th line.
Lehtera is smart and physical, he just needs speed on his wings to compensate for being mobility challenged.
But the ideal solution is Frost at 3C, Vorobyev at 4C, Laughton at 4LW, and Lehtera in the press box.