On paper this is beautiful. In reality, are those 2 better than Wheeler & Bonino? All 4 are slow, Wheeler is coming around & Bino has filled in nicely. This is a whole draft for 1/2 season switcheroo rentals. Me no like

At this point I think anyone is better than Bonino and I’m really hoping he isn’t an every game player in the playoffs. He doesn’t offer much except faceoffs and blocked shots

I think Rico still has legs and could be motivated to win a cup. Tarasenko is having a better year with Ottawa than he did with the Blues

There’s still other options like Monahan, T. Johnson, Wennberg

Henrique is scoring at the rate of half a point a game on a terrible team. He's every bit as good in the faceoff circle as Bonino and he's still good defensively -- yes, plus/minus is a coarse statistic, but it is still significant that on a team with a -29 goal differential, Henrique is -3 while Bonino, in far less ice time on a far better team, is -4.

Rico is much much better suited for the 3rd line. Bonino is a black hole offensively, he holds back Cuylle