assuming either dach or newhook can be 2c (which is not sure) This team needs another middle 6 winger and probably a right.side dman with experience.

I assume our first this year is gonna fill the gap for a foward. Now we will need to see if our 2c are good enough and if mailloux and reinbacher can be good top 4 options.

I know you’re trying to keep righties on the right but Xhekaj will be a fixture on the blue line for years to come while Barron is very quickly running out of road in Montreal. Also Matheson is more than a bottom pairing dman so he’ll get traded before anything like this happens…

On offense Newhook is more suited to the wing so I’d switch him and Dach and unless Anderson drastically steps up his game we’ll definitely need more scoring in the middle 6.

Overall if Hughes does nothing(which I highly doubt he will)this team is fighting for a wild card spot in a couple years. If he somehow adds serious secondary scoring then this team could be a threat in 3 years.