Our bottom 6 needs a serious upgrade from last season
In an ideal world, Jankowski or Bennett (please I'm begging dude) are ready for 2nd line duty. That would allow us to have Backlund and Frolik play 3rd line and do a lot of tough work against top lines as well as penalty killing, while providing depth scoring we desperately need
Going into the season with a lineup like this gives us some solid depth:
Gaudreau-Monahan-Lindholm
Tkachuk-Jankowski-UFA?
Bennett-Backlund-Frolik
????-Shore-Foo
Hathaway-Lazar (Meh on both)
A lot of these guys can move around the line-up so there's a lot of line combos I can get excited about
I wouldn't mind seeing Versteeg come back. We noticeably lack any kind of toughness outside of Tkachuk and Hathaway (meh) so I think that's something we need to target to fill the couple empty spots
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