So I've waited a week to let the 1st round thumping process, and this is the conclusion I've come to with this roster.
I want to see players on this team that can excel at the role they are given and play with heart. My only two requirements.
That being said this is the skeleton of the roster I would keep, because these are the players that showed any ounce of wanting to win these playoffs. These are the players that when you saw them on the bench in game 4 and 5, they were visibly frustrated. These are the players I saw skating hard to the puck "for the majority" of the gutless final periods in game 5.
Gaudreau - XXX - Lindholm
Tkachuk - Backlund - XXX
Bennett - XXX - Czarnik
Mangiapane - Ryan - Hathaway
Giordano - Anderssen
XXX - Hamonic
Valimaki - XXX
Smith
*Disclaimer* this doesn't mean this is the lineup I would ice, and also doesn't mean I want to get rid of any player I left off. These are just the players I noticed in the series that seem like they give a sh*t about winning hockey games.
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