I myself really really like the look of our future defencemen
#1 defencemen without question is Seth Jones, regardless of what people think money wise he’s a legit #1
Connor Murphy and Jake McCabe are both signed to numerous years, they were part of what I believe was Bowmans’ hope for a US defence, remember he was USA GM before the fall, they both are reliable dmen, tradeable contracts, I see them being moved just because of the glut of prospects on the backend
Caleb Jones and Riley Stillman are very very similar in experience, age and worth...defencemen take longer and both have a chance at being the inbetweeners til prospects arrive
Jack Johnson, I now believe was signed because of the known injury to McCabe, he’s a known player, again tradeable at the deadline like our other forward UFAs signings this summer, he will provide leadership for our youngsters this season
Now onto the prospects...what a list!
Ian Mitchell
Alex Vlasic
Alec Regula
Nicolas Beaudin
Jakub Galvas
Isaak Phillips
Are just six of our prospects, returning prospects, wow! They’ll be competing for two spots I believe with...
Filip Roos who I think a lot of people have forgot about, will Roos surprise and follow in the foot steps of Kempny, Rutta and Forsling? We’ll see
Kevin Korchinski
Ethan Del Mastro
Nolan Allan
Louis Crevier
These defencemen are of a legitimate type for making the team in another year, one of which could see NHL games before being sent back to junior(Korchinski or Allan)...again wow!
Kaiser
Rinzel
Harding
Krutil
Kelley
Can’t be rushed, no spots for them at the moment, but holy do we have some potential here as well wow!