[TheScorpion]

I can't wait for Foo to be denied a top-six role because he can't be "gifted a role" like that and then Brouwer gets PP time again.

Here's what I'd like to see, at least to start, with my preferred acquisitions:

Gaudreau - Monahan - Hoffman
Tkachuk - Jankowski - Foo
Bennett - Backlund - Vanek
Ryan - Shore - Frolik
Versteeg

Giordano - Hamilton
Valimaki - Hamonic
Kulak - Andersson
Wotherspoon

Smith
Grubauer

That, in my opinion, is a team with great forward depth and it's easily attainable. The only real question marks there are Foo and Valimaki, but why not give them a shot? Here's how I'd shake everything there:

Signings:
Vanek - 2 years, $2.25 million per
Ryan - 2 years, $1.75 million per
Versteeg - 1 year, $900k
Wotherspoon - 1 year, $850k

Trades:
Brodie for Hoffman
Ferland and Lazar for Grubauer
Stone for 2 3rds
Brouwer (33% retained) for a 4th