Wolanin only played 40 games in the AHL, but nobody was saying we should leave him down (this year or last year tbh). Jaros only played 45 games in the AHL. White has 50 career games in Belleville/Bingo. His production there wasn't as good as Browns, but there was no shortage of those who felt he needed to be with the big club. Zibanejad only ever played 29 AHL games, and was able to fit in pretty quickly putting up ~40 pts paces from the 3rd line.
Personally, I'd like to see Brown at camp before predicting whats best for his development. The nice thing about the offseason is if gives players time to work on the weaknesses that were exposed in a prospects first year of pro hockey. Maybe he comes to camp with an extra bit of explisiveness in his first step, maybe late season collapse left him hungry and he hit the gym, who knows.
I'd love to see him come in the way Stone and Hoffman did; playing 3rd/4th line mins with another high skilled guy (Batherson) as a scoring line. Heck, throw them out there with Formenton, could be a heck of a line. Maybe we see it mid season...
Tkachuk-White-Brown ---> top line... leaves something to be desired.
Duclaire-Tierney-Balcers ---> not a terrible 2nd line, would make a good 3rd.
Anisimov-Pageau-Ennis ---> traditional shutdown line. Will likely be hated by fans
Formenton-Brown-Batherson ---> everbody will say this should be our first line, but they'll only get 11 mins a night.
Eating popcorn in the pressbox line Boedker, Ryan