Hard to predict without seeing the summer moves because things can really change. Will Burke/new GM sign any notable UFAs? Will Burke/new GM make any significant trades to add a young player (see Turris to OTT type deal) or an established player (see Ryan to OTT type deal)?
Hard to imagine there won't be some new faces.
I think the following could happen.
MINUS: Cammalleri, Galiardi, Wideman?
RE-SIGN UFA: Butler, Westgarth?, Breen
ADD: Several of Granlund, Wotherspoon, Reinhart, Knight, Gaudreau, Baertschi, Agostino, Hanowski, Van Brabant, Poirier. The most likely of the bunch IMO would be Gaudreau, Baertschi, Granlund, Wotherspoon, Reinhart and Knight
Glencross-Backlund-Hudler
Gaudreau-Monahan-Colborne
M.Reinhart-Granlund-D.Jones
Bouma-Stajan-McGrattan
Knight-Westgarth?
Giordano-Brodie
Butler/Wideman-Russell
Smid-Wotherspoon
Ramo
???
Is that team better? Maybe slightly?
I dunno it's almost too early to speculate on stuff like this. The roster should see some change at the draft and then in July as well.
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