Johnny Gaudreau - Sean Monahan - Jiri Hudler
Michael Ferland - Sam Bennett - David Jones
Lance Bouma - Mikael Backlund - Michael Frolik
Joe Colborne - Matt Stajan - Josh Jooris
Mark Giordano - T.J. Brodie
Kris Russell - Dougie Hamilton
Deryk Engelland - Dennis Wideman
That'd be my lineup. Up front that would mean there's two more spots for Byron, Bollig, Raymond, Granlund and Shore to battle out - personally I'd love to see Raymond and/or Bollig get traded, but I don't see it. Something's got to give here ...
Defensively I don't really care who sits in the pressbox as 7th defenseman until Smid is healthy. For Wotherspoon and Morrison it'd be better to play top minutes in Stockton, I guess.
In goal, as long as Ortio isn't lost on waivers, I'm fine either way. My preference would be to trade Hiller and go with Ramo/Ortio, but again, not sure whether that's a realistic scenario.
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