Your favorite team by 2020

[DieByTheShield]

What would your favorite team look like in five years, based on current players, prospects, and/or mock draft picks

Rangers:

Anthony Duclair-Derek Stepan-Pavel Buchnevich
Chris Krieder-Kevin Hayes-JT Miller
Jesper Fast-Derick Brassard-Mats Zuccarello
Danny Kristo-Oscar Lindberg-????

Ryan McDonagh-Brady Skjei
Marc Staal-Dylan McIllrath
Connor Allen-Dan Girardi

Henrik Lundqvist
Brandon Halverson

Edit: This is assuming all prospects pan out, of course. Decent forward core with a mediocre defense and pretty ok in net. The Rangers may be one of those "good but not great" teams that finish around the 95 point, 44 win range.

Major Departures: Nash (free agency), St. Louis (retired), Hagelin (free agency)

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[Diamondillium]

I think the Oilers have like one or two players who were on the roster 5 years ago, so I wouldn't even begin to imagine where they would be 5 years from now.

 

[the4thlinegrinder]

I think the Oilers have like one or two players who were on the roster 5 years ago, so I wouldn't even begin to imagine where they would be 5 years from now.

Do you think Austin Matthews will be the #2 centre and RNH 3?

 

[BamaWing]

Nyquist - Larkin - Mantha
Tatar - Sheahan - Pulkinnen
Holmstrom - Ehn - Bertuzzi
AA - Glendening -

 

[How Ya Drouin]

How the heck are we supposed to guess this? Roster turnover in the NHL is crazy.

 

[DonskoiDonscored]

Are we assuming everyone pans out? If so:

Karlsson - Hertl (A) - Goldobin
Nieto - Couture - Pavelski
Labanc - Tierney - Chartier
Wingels (A) - Rod - Goodrow
Others that could make it/scratches: Carpenter, Tarasov, Emanuelsson, Jevpalovs, Kuraly

Vlasic (C) - Braun
Mueller - Dillon
Abeltshauser - Brodzinski/Bergman

Stalock
Bergvik

Rundown: little hope in net, solid D group, and decent fwd group. It really depends on how the 3rd/4th line FWD's + Goldobin translate, but everything looks good so far

Major Departures: Thornton, Marleau, Burns

 

[salsa man]

How the heck are we supposed to guess this? Roster turnover in the NHL is crazy.

Yeah, these threads are kind of stupid. Every roster is just a mix of current players plus prospects. It's impossible to guess trades and free agents signings.

 

[DearDiary]

JVR-Tavares-Kessel
Gauthier-Nylander-Stamkos

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Ages in parenthesis:

Zucker (27) - Granlund (27) - Tuch (23)
Parise (35) - 2015 1st Rounder (22) - Neiderreiter (27)
Maybe Lucia (26) - Koivu (36) - Coyle (27)

Scandella (29) - Brodin (26)
Suter (35) - Dumba (25)
Olofsson (25)

Dubnyk (33)
Kuemper (29)

 

[Rangediddy]

Gaudreau - Monahan(C)- Poirier
Baertschi* - Bennett - Colborne(A)
Klimchuk - Jankowski* - Jooris
Ferland - Backlund(A) - H. Smith
Granlund

Brodie(A) - Wotherspoon
Sieloff - Kylington
Kanzig - Russell
Mattsson

Ortio
McDonald

*thank god we're assuming prospects pan out!

 

[CrookedCrook]

Buffalo:

Girgensons(A) - Eichel - Fasching
Ennis - Reinhart(C) - Armia
Lemieux - Grigorenko - Baptiste
Deslauriers - JT Compher - Bailey

Zadorov - Ristolainen
Gorges(A)* - Myers
McCabe - Pysyk

Ullmark

* I couldn't find a replacement for Gorges in the pipeline but he definitely wont be in this position by 2020.

 

[trick9]

Ovechkin - Backstrom - Kuznetsov
Burakovsky - Tavares - Konecny
Vrana - Stamkos - Wilson
Tuch - Matthews - Barber

Vlasic - Carlson
Alzner - E.Johnson
Hjalmarsson - Niskanen

Holtby
Bishop


Because why not.

 

[deathtouchtrample]

Perron(they'll extend him)-Sid-Kappanen
UFA/Trade Acquisition-Malkin-Bleuger
Uher-Sundqvist-Rust

Maatta-Letang
Despres-Harrington
UFA-Pouliot(but PP1)

Jarry might be his first starter year MAF is up in '19.

 

[Coily]

in 2010 SJ had 7 players it has today.

Thornton Pavelski Marleau Couture Vlasic Stalock and Desjardins

So I would assume Sj's roster in 5 years isn't going to look anything like it does today.

 

[Farnham4top6]

Sill-Adams-Kunitz
Sill-Adams-Spalling
Sill-Adams-Sutter
Sill-Crosby-Adams
Malkin

Scuderi-DP
DP-Scuderi
Letang-Bort

MAF
Greiss

 

[canucks10]

Impossible to predict the rosters so ill just post the ages of our main roster players.
Nick Bonino - 31
Alexadre Burrows - 38
Chris Higgins - 36
Bo Horvat - 24
Sedins - 39
Radim Vrbata - 38
Kevin Bieksa - 38
Adam Clendening - 27
Frankie Corrado - 26
Alex Edler - 33
Dan Hamhuis - 37
Chris Tanev - 30
Eddie Lack - 31
Ryan Miller - 39

 

[SeidoN]

Merrill - Larsson
Santini - Severson
Gelinas - Helgeson

Schneider
Kinkaid?

id post the forwards but there are so many holes :'(

 

[tucker3434]

Landeskog-MacKinnon-plug
Plug-Duchene-plug
Plug-Bleackley-plug
Plug-plug-plug

Plug-Johnson
Bigras-Barrie
Siemens-plug

Varlamov
Pickard

Conservative guess. Impossible to predict ufa and trades.

 

[Machinehead]

Kreider-Stepan-Nash (who I predict we will re-sign)
[Hopefully Duclair, if not something else we found]-[Maybe Brassard]-[An old guy we traded all our 1st round picks for]
[One of our kids or something we traded one of them for]-[Probably Hayes]-[One of our 3rd/4th rounders that's good because lord knows we don't have a 1st]
[Awful hockey player that's in the lineup for "omg grit" who might fight a few times that we paid way too much money for]-[Veteran 4C that we signed]-[Some kid]

McDonagh-[Free Agent or drafted or traded-for RD that's hopefully good]
Staal-[Some kid, possibly Skjei]
[Some other guy we came across, maybe McIlrath if one can dream]-[Girardi's corpse which we'll still be giving money to]

Henrik Lundqvist
[Whichever of our ample goalie prospects didn't bust and/or wasn't moved to fill an above bracket]

 

[Marky9er]

Nyquist - Larkin - Mantha
Tatar - Sheahan - Pulkinnen
Holmstrom - Ehn - Bertuzzi
AA - Glendening -

If Wings fans seen this 5 years ago they'd throw a fit thinking Bertuzzi and Holmstrom were still mucking around in 2020....rofl

 

[AlexBrovechkin8]

Ovechkin - Backstrom - Kuznetsov
Burakovsky - Tavares - Konecny
Vrana - Stamkos - Wilson
Tuch - Matthews - Barber

Vlasic - Carlson
Alzner - E.Johnson
Hjalmarsson - Niskanen

Holtby
Bishop


Because why not.

No Green?

 

[napoleon in rags]

I have no idea who will be on the Leafs in 2020, but they'll be gunning for a repeat of their Stanley Cup win in 2019.

 

[jhoops89]

Drouin - Stamkos - Johnson
Palat - Namestnikov - Kucherov
Point - Paquette - Erne
Broll - Kunyk - DiGiacinto
Peca

Hedman - Chychrun
Koekkoek - DeAngelo
Barberio - Sustr
Blujus

Vasilevskiy
Gudlevskis


Major Departures:
Callahan, Connolly and a 2017 1st - traded for 2016 1OA, selected: Jakob Chychrun
Filppula - retirement
Boyle - FA
Garrison - FA
Stralman - FA

 

[Maple Leaf]

JVR-Tavares-Kessel
Gauthier-Nylander-Stamkos

The craziest part about this is that GOATier is on the second line

 

[Steamwhistle]

Nylander - Nylander - Nylander
Nylander - Nylander - Nylander
Nylander - Nylander - Nylander
Nylander - Nylander - Nylander

Rielly - Rielly
Rielly - Rielly
Rielly - Rielly