Quoted from near the end of the last thread in response to me stating we wouldn't trade yakupov and eberle unless we draft 2nd overall:
start quote: "Well let's say we draft Laine, we could pull a top 9 with:
Hall
Laine
Pouliot
and
Maroon
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Kassian
So we'd need to find a scoring RW in free agency....doable with our cap space potentially.
Also could move Leon to the RW." end quote
laine is a right hand shot, and maroon is a left hand shot who plays the LW so there a couple problems with that lineup... i would see it as:
Hall - <UFA signing>/drai
Maroon - Laine
Pouliot (if he's still with the team) - Kassian
i would agree that you would likely see drai as 1st line RW quite a bit if we wanted to load up the top-2 lines....something like:
hall-RNH-drai
maroon-mcdavid-laine
if we don't draft 2nd overall, there is no way we trade eberle and yak without bringing in 2 more right hand wingers somehow... without ebs and yak, our best right hand shot winger is kassian, which is scary beyond belief... even in the lineup above, we are VERY young, with maroon being the most veteran player, followed by hall, followed by RNH.... this is again pretty scary