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Originally Posted by thymebalm
Gaudreau - Monahan - Poirer
Granlund - Backlund - Ferland
Arnold - Stajan - Knight
Klimchuk - Colborne - McGrattan (i dunno, hahaha)
Giordano - Brodie
Russell - Wotherspoon
Ramage - Sieloff
Gillies
Ortio
^That's the game where I slot everyone in at their absolute ceiling and pretend everything is going to turn out perfect and we ice only draft picks.
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No Baertschi? No Bouma? I think you're underrating Klimchuk a bit, he's got sniper hands and could easily end up as a 2nd liner. Kind of rough to project the lineup due to our depth at LW and lack of depth at RW. Presumably some wingers will move to the other side.
Potential Top 2 Line Wingers
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Gaudreau
Poirier
Baertschi
Klimchuk
Granlund
Ferland
We're looking fairly good here except that too small and too soft on the wings. Could use another powerforward and this draft may bring us that.
Potential Top 2 Line Centres
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Monahan
Backlund
Jankowski
We actually look pretty decent at centre IMO. We've got some size, skill, two-way ability. If we don't land a centre this year I'm not concerned at all.
Potential Bottom 2 Line Forwards
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Bouma
Colborne
Knight
Reinhart
Arnold
Hanowski
Agostino
Jooris
Great depth in depth forwards. We should be fine here.
Potential Top 4 Defensemen
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Giordano
Brodie
Russell
Russell is showing top 4 defenseman form this year. We obviously lack size and strength back here. No defensive defenseman capable of logging top 4 minutes.
Potential 5-7 Defensemen
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Sieloff
Wotherspoon
Ramage
Kulak
Culkin
Breen
Billins
Kanzig
Seem pretty set with depth defensemen.
Potential Starting Goalies
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Joni Ortio
Jon Gillies
Definitely a bit of a question mark here.
Overall our depth is quite good. As Burke has noted we need some size strength added at key positions (top 6 forward, top 4 D). Luckily he's got some assets with which he could package together to try and get those types. I could see Burke packaging up a few of our prospects to grab a key young player. And this years draft has a lot of big forwards around where we may be drafting if we don't finish bottom 3.
Rebuild looking good so far IMO. Nice to see the step up from Backlund, Brodie, Russell, Bouma and Monahan. They are all proving to be part of the solution.