I'd like to see us go for a few year re tool;
Tkachuk to OTT for Stutzle + 1st + 3rd
Lindholm to COL for Byram + 1st
Hanifin + 3rd to BOS for Debrusk + 1st
With our first line gone it won't be pretty but we'd be going into a strong draft with 4 firsts and a ton of cap space
Mangi - Backlund - Coleman
Debrusk - Stutzle - Toffoli
Dube - Monahan - Ruzicka
Lucic - Rooney - Phillips
Lewis
Kylington - Tanev
Byram - Andersson
Zadorov - Mackey
Markstrom
Vladar
We'd be a lottery team but 4 1sts and ~20m in cap space @ the draft is worth it imo.
In 2 years almost all of our current contracts are off the books. It's the perfect opportunity to go for a clean slate with some up and coming talent. You've got Stutzle and Byram as shots for that #1C/D we need along with Pelletier, Coronato and Zary in the wings. If we can hit on 2/4 firsts we could be looking really competitive in 2024/2025 after the rest of our current core is off the books.
Anyways I know it's a far fetched pipe dream but it was fun!
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