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Originally Posted by Drunk Uncle
To me the missing ingredients are speed and goal scoring. If I'm Tre I'm looking to move Brodie or Stone for Athanasiou or Wood plus a pick. Both guys are young have great speed and are above 0.92 G/60 5 on 5 scoring (Phil Kessel is 0.93 for reference). I'd then work as hard as I could to sign JVR (1.35 G/60 5 on 5) and roll with this next year:
Gaudreau - Monohan - JVR
Tkachuk - Backlund - Frolik
Bennett - Jankowski - Athanasiou/Wood
Lazar - Shore - Ferland
Gio - Hamilton
Kulak - Hamonic
Stone/Brodie - Andersson
Thoughts?
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I really like Athanasiou. JVR I'm more skeptical on, I think he and Kane are going to get similar contracts and I would personally prefer Kane. Otherwise I think it looks like a good start! I would also try to offload Ferland+the other of Brodie or stone for maybe one more piece up front if there's something good on the table- Upgrading on Frolik would dramatically improve the second line too. Maybe a brodie- domi swap or something similar...
Gaudreau - Monahan - Kane (or JVR)
Tkachuk - Backlund - Domi (or other Brodie trade)
Bennett - Jankowski - Athanasiou
Lazar - Shore - Frolik
Gio - Hamilton
Kulak - Hamonic
Kylington - Andersson
Edit: I prefer athanasiou to wood only because one is producing on an over performing team while one is on an underachieving team, and athanasiou has also seen ~20 goals twice now.