Just for a minute, I want to project the starting line up next season:
Johnny-Monny-Ferland
Tkachuk-Backlund-Frolik
Bennett-Jankowski-Lazar
Some combo of Brouwer-Stajan-Chiasson-Hamilton-Bouma-Hathaway
(One will be lost in expansion, hopefully an expensive long term one)
Gio-Hamilton
Brodie-Stone
Kulak-Engelland (or equivalent replacement)
Bartkowski
Elliot
Rittich/Gillies
-I don't see room for Versteeg
-Enough options from the bottom 6 to sub in for Ferland if he struggles
-depending on a couple of factors, enough cap space to bring back all the free agents and possibly sign a top line RW
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