wintersej
Registered User
Lohrei playing as well as he has in the playoffs has me really excited for next season already. You insert him into the top 4, Beecher claims a full time roster spot, Brazeau claims a bottom 6 spot, you get Poitras back healthy with a full summer of strength training and sliding into 3C. And you have more then enough cap space to re-sign Debrusk while also adding an impact player to play up top with Zacha and Pasta. Something like this as a baseline:
Zacha-x-Pasta
Marchand-Coyle-Debrusk
Frederic-Poitras-Geekie
x-Beecher-Brazeau
Lauko/Brown/Whoever
Lindholm-McAvoy
Lohrei-Carlo
x-Peeke
Wotherspoon
Swayman/Bussi or vet backup
Has the potential to be a really deep team both offensively and defensively.
And Lysell and Merkulov have nothing left do prove in the AHL. What the top 9 is going to look like next year is just chaos.