Rejoint: mars 2019
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In agreement with your breakdown. Knowing whether KJ is gonna be able to play center or if he'll be a wing is really important to figure out, if possible, this season. Getting Boone back onto the wing is gonna be a really good consequence of that too if it happens. Only tough part is that idk if it's a good idea to try and just slot Fantilli into that 1C spot right away, so maybe you have Boone there to start the year at least and if all goes well you can transition those players to the spots you have them in a few months into the season? Same idea for maybe starting Sillinger in the AHL for a bit, though that's not as big of a concern for me.
I like moving Robinson. There's just too many guys in the bottom 6 and he's the odd man out imo. They just resigned Olivier, so he's gonna be here this year (as the extra skater who plays situationally imo). Tex is basically a lock, and Danforth clears Robinson by a lot with what he provides on the ice imo. Between Voronkov and Robinson, Voronkov should absolutely be playing. We know what Robinson is, Voronkov may actually be more than that, so finding that out is important.
On the blue line, 2 things I'd say
First, Grubrandson is unfortunately gonna be in the lineup for better or worse. You probably know that so not a problem since we all would prefer it that way.
I personally would play Blankenburg over Bean though. I haven't seen enough from Bean to warrant him being in Columbus past this season and I think you get more out of Blankenburg in the lineup short term, so I'd opt to play him.