Galiardi, Westgarth, Jones, Mac and maybe Wideman are who probably should be replaced most. However, people are being way too harsh on Wideman, he's still put up .5 PPG despite the injuries, and you can't expect him to jump into a top 4 role and not miss a step with all the time he's been out. It's just been a bad year health-wise, and ridiculous to say from a couple small stretches between major injuries that his career is about done... He can be a good tie over piece until Sieloff comes in and replaces him.
One of Cammalleri, Hudler and Byron needs to go, unfortunately, as the team can't possibly go into the future with too many small forwards. Gaudreau will be an automatic player on our top 6 down the road, but he'll need to be surrounded by 'beef', and Huds or Cammalleri won't cut it. I'd love to just keep Byron if anything as the 13th forward long term, as he regularly seems to do great things out there with his energy and speed, and would be a great sub in when needed.
Hartley and co. have earned themselves another year, if not 2, to see where they can take the team with the effort and commitment they seem to be getting out of them more and more. Hopefully with better talents coming in the near future, the results will will be more consistently favourable.
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