Line in the sand

Barzal isn’t playing wing smh

No lets make an important distinction. You dont want barzal to play wing probably bc you think he'll be worse there but that doesnt mean he wont. I cannot see any way they give 32yo kadri 7×7 unless they want to play him with barzal. Otherwise it doesnt make sense and tbh their skill sets complement each other extremely well. That means one of them is moving to w and if thats true id bet it will be barzy, bc kadri isnt signing here to play W. Barzal has struggled in terms of point production and maybe he is willing to try something new (we've all seen the giroux comparisons recently).
Truth be told id probably rather him at C as well but in the event we do sign kadri this is most probably going to happen.

I would assume the guy moving to wing would be Nelson. Otherwise I expect Pageau to be traded.

Maybe Isles try a Lee-Barzal-Nelson line combination. Nelson and Lee played some wing with Strome if I recall correctly.

Yeah id say 0 chance JGP goes and why would they move nelson to W. That doesnt help the fact that 2 C cant play the same line. They wont sign kadri to be a 2C, they already have a top 2C. Theyll sign him to be a top line F and play with barzal. And that means that one of barzal or kadri and not nelson moves to W. I really dont mean this in a condescending way but you seem to have a hard time seperating what you want to happen from what is most likely to happen.