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Originally Posted by djsFlames
This has basically been how we've traded off leading into 19/20 with our offseason moves
Hathaway --> Lomberg / Dube
Neal --> Lucic
Stone --> Kylington
Smith --> Talbot
You probably have some minor gains and minor losses in there. Overall, the change is probably minimal, if just neutral.
It may feel like a bad one but that's just cause there's been so little action that everything done has been magnified.
If those depth changes are basically a wash, then outside of that, I think the young core being older makes you better and Valimaki will be a marked improvement to the third pairing.
And I still think Lucic just being a scary monster out there provides a boost to the psyches of the skilled players.
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I might rearrange that as:
Hathaway -> Lucic
Neal -> Dube
which I think is an improvement. In fact, going down the roster by TOI, I don't think the changes look bad at all...
Forwards (assumes Frolik is still there, or there is someone to replace him):
8. Jankowski ----> Bennett
9. Neal ----------> Jankowski
10. Bennett -----> Mangiapane
11. Hathaway ---> Lucic
12. Czarnik ------> Dube
13. Mangiapane -> Czarnik
14. Dube --------> anybody's guess
and on defense (assuming Brodie is still here):
5. Andersson --> Andersson
6. Kylington ---> Valimaki
7. Valimaki ----> Kylington
8. Prout -------> Davidson
9. Fattenberg -> Yelesin
10. Stone -----> Valiev
I think the forward and D groups both look better, when looked at according to ice time.
If Brodie is gone, the D will be really thin though.