Expect:
Tkachuk - Backlund - Frolik
Gaudreau - Monahan - Ferland
Versteeg - Bennett - Brouwer
Lazar - Stajan - Hathaway
Giordano - Hamilton
Brodie - Stone
Kulak - Engelland
Elliott
Gillies
Want:
Tkachuk - Backlund - Frolik
Gaudreau - Monahan - X1
X4 - Lazar - Bennett
X5 - Jankowski - Hathaway
Brodie - Hamilton
X2 - Stone
Kulak - Engelland
X3
Gillies
X= Treliving magic
1. #1 priority is a sniper on the RW
2. Trade Giordano if you have to at this point. He has a lot of value to other teams even with his contract. You're not going to get the pieces you need on the free agent market to build this into a contender. Brodie/Stone/Hamilton can be top 3. Sign a lower cost FA to take the #4 and the time is now to cycle the bottom 2 with Kylington, Andersson, Kulak, Morrison, etc and see who sticks.
3. Round three of "Spin the Goalie" wheel. Pick your poison, a vet like Bishop/Fleury, or go for someone like Raanta/Saros/Pickard. Just don't get locked into a long deal we can't get out of.
4. Versteeg on another 1 year deal? We'll have to see what happens with Vegas. Do they take Brouwer? If not, we'll be stuck with him here.
5. We have too many centers now, and if we can't move Stajan you're looking at two of Bennett, Lazar and Jankowski going to the wing.
- Bouma to Stockton
- Rotate in Shinkaruk, Mangiapane, Klimchuk, and Poirier early on the bottom two lines
- Total revamp of the power play strategies
- Get into the playoffs again, still get outplayed and do this all again next year
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