[Goriders]

I see the lineup being:

Huberdeau-Sharangovich-Mantha
Zary-Kadri-Kuzmenko
Pospisil-Backlund-Coleman
Hunt-Rooney-Lomberg
Coronato
Duehr

Weeger-Anderson
Bahl-Miromanov
Bean-Pachal
Hanley

Wolf (if resigned)
Vladar

I think the Mantha and Lomberg signings are a signal that no forwards outside of Hunt and Coronato are making a push. Zary and Pospisil earned their stripes last season. I think Pelletier will be in the AHL if resigned. Duehr is probably on thin ice too with Lomberg showing up.

Defence may have a push from the farm. There’s definitely room if Bean and Hanley are who they have to beat out. I bet one of them will be pushed out by mid season. If not in camp.

Wolf and Vladar in net. I’m assuming Wolf’s deal will get done. There’s no way he should spend anymore time in the AHL. I think the biggest question marks are in net. They will probably determine how the season goes. I don’t have a great feeling about it as the defence in front of them is a shadow of what it was at the start of last season.

I think the conman has cleaned up the majority of the mess that Treliving left behind in terms of the salary structure of the roster. No more guys getting grossly overpaid outside of huberdeau now. He also purged all of the checked out players.

He also still has a ton of cap space that he could use if things are going completely sideways for some reason. It should be very interesting to see how things go. Honestly our forward group is not far off what we finshed last season with and I thought they were playing pretty good at the end of the year. Kuzmenko also helped get the powerplay going.

Defence and goaltending will be another story. I think there will be some flux on D. Per above the biggest question mark will be in net.