CENTRES
11 Mikael Backlund - keep
46 Marek Hrivik - let walk
77 Mark Jankowski - re-sign
23 Sean Monahan - keep; untouchable
25 Nick Shore - re-sign
18 Matt Stajan - let walk
LEFT WINGS
93 Sam Bennett - keep
79 Micheal Ferland - keep
13 Johnny Gaudreau - keep; untouchable
15 Tanner Glass - walk
19 Matthew Tkachuk - keep; untouchable
RIGHT WINGS
36 Troy Brouwer - buyout
67 Michael Frolik - keep, but move to third line
21 Garnet Hathaway - indifferent, but good in 4th line role
20 Curtis Lazar - keep
8 Chris Stewart -walk
10 Kris Versteeg -walk
DEFENSE
44 Matt Bartkowski - walk
7 T.J. Brodie - trade, for someone like Hoffman
5 Mark Giordano - keep
27 Dougie Hamilton - keep; untouchable
24 Travis Hamonic - keep
61 Brett Kulak - keep
26 Michael Stone - trade
GOALIES
33 David Rittich - keep
41 Mike Smith - keep
Head Coach: Glen Gulutzan - fire, only if we can hire Quennville, other than that keep him as his system speaks for itself, and the odds aren't high that we see this team outplay everyone and still lose again next year like what happened this year.
Ass. Coach: Dave Cameron - fire, Clearly need a new powerplay. I think that is essentially the main reason for missing playoffs this year.
Ass. Coach: Paul Jerrard - fire
Ass. Coach: Martin Gelinas - Keep but shuffle to a new role in the organization
Goal Coach: Jordan Sigalet - fire
GM: Brad Treliving - Keep
Gaudreau - Monahan - Hoffman (traded for Brodie)
Tkachuck - Backlund - Bennett/Ferland
Bennett/Ferland - Jankowski - Frolik
Lazar - Shore - Hathaway/Mangiapane
- Backlunds line gets more offensive but remains defensively responsible enough to shutdown. Jankowski's line gets more responsible with frolik and if Janko takes another step could have two lines that can play in both offensive and defensive situations.
Gio - Hamilton
Fox/Valimaki - Hamonic
Kulak - Andersson
- Trade Brodie for someone like Hoffman then hopefully one of Fox or Valimaki will be ready to make the jump. Andersson is ready imo and can slot in perfectly fine on the third pair as well as move up if injuries happen.
Smith
Rittich
Hopefully no major injuries for Smith next year but if we can get back to how the goalies were playing before Smiths injury plus score a few more powerplay goals we should win quite a few more games.
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