Habs Cap Compliant Opening Night Lineup

Gonna be a rough season

Hopefully, a bottom 3 season

Salfkovsky is confirmed NOT going to the WJHC in Edmonton next month so you'd think he is almost guaranteed to make the club as the club wants him to rest after the Olympics, full season in Liiga and the WHC.

Guhle will be on the club at some point as well going between Laval in the A and Montreal

You cant play Hoffman on the 4th line. He will probably be on the top line with Caufield and Suzuki which is where he played to finish the year. Pitlick and Drouin can drop down to the bottom 2 lines.

Drouin-Dvorak-Anderson already have chemistry so they probably start together
One of Hoffman or Dadonov will start with Suzuki and Caufield
Byron will start on LTIR and Price is apparently healthy and good to start the season via Stephan White

That would leave one of Dadonov/Hoffman on the 4th line. I dont think thats a good idea as they'll be flipped at some point whether the TDL or next offseason.

Pitlick-Evans-Drouin would be an interesting line. Drouin hasnt played in awhile though i know he had chemistry with Anderson as they are friends off the ice.

I'd like to see the big boys Slafkovsky-Dach-Anderson on the same line.

The guy they need to force out is Armia. He doesnt seem to have a role on this team. I'd put him in and out of the lineup. He seems to get lazy and take games off. He'd probably be a lot better in spurts. So much talent coming off 5 goals in 10 games leading Finland to the Gold in WHC a few months ago but disappears in so many games.

Armia never been an healthy scratch so it's not happening
Look at my AGM I just did and give me your opinion