Quoting: nhlproduction
brown and zaitsev are as good as gone. top 4 should be
Rielly - RHD (miller/larsson/whoever)
Muzzin - Dermott
bottom pair is depth guys they have or can sign for cheap
that being said, that’s not enough for miller. borgman is a fringe NHLer and rasanen has taken a hard left turn in his development. i think one of Kapanen/Johnsson are moved for a defenceman, and moore is having an AHL playoff like Johnsson did last year, i expect him to be 3rd line next year, for me forwards look like this
Hyman - Tavares - Marner
Johnsson/Kapanen - Matthews - Nylander
Moore - Kadri - Bracco
4th line doesn’t really matter, whoever makes it
Who to trade between Johnsson and Kapanen I find an interesting question.
Apparently Kapanen has shown more interest and loyalty to being long term with the organization, and I'd be temped to say he'll be the better player, if nothing else because he is succeeding in the NHL at a younger age.
The flipside however, is Kapanen is a MUCH better right winger than left winger and our organizational RW depth is excellent and our organizational LW depth is actually quite poor. Moore is a RW who can play LW. Marner is a RW. Nylander is a RW/C. Bracco is a RW, Korshkov is a RW.
It leaves us with Hyman, who fits a niche role so great, an old shell of his former self Marleau, and outside of the NHL Mikheyev and depth prospects like Engall. We frankly traded our best LW prospect in Grundstrom earlier in the year.
Brown can technically play both but he is much better on the RW than LW.
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