In My Honest Opinion

I personally like Barbashev but I don't see where he fits with Morgan Barron taking Howden's 4C spot.

Does he fit as a 4LW? Don't believe his defensive abilities are optimal for that role though.

He's played well on that side. I just remember a lot of rangers fans saying they thought he'd fit well. Barbashev can fit in a 3rd line/4th line role pretty well on the Wing or down the Center. Albeit he's not great on faceoffs average is around 45% so the idea with him is he normally has more takeaways than giveaways and he hits so many times. He's a forechecking forward. So depending on how you utilize him he's very good a filling that role. For Berube couple times he even moved him up into a Top 6 role and scored some wicked wrist shots for us. So I mean he's great player just use him right.

Sounds good. I think this move could work if there is no move made for a "physical" replacement for Lemieux.

bortuzzo better than holl? don't finish my lungs man, holl is way better. as a depth piece, mayer, but even then I feel like dubas could find much better options without having to give up anything through fa

Barby isn't slow, and he was one of the few skaters actually pulling weight in the playoffs.