I think Drury — who on Tuesday talked of “the physicality, the energy, the effort, the intensity” of the teams left in the playoffs — will try to add a
Blake Coleman or a
Casey Cizikas or a
Zach Hyman unless a more-legit top-six player with those rugged qualities can somehow be finagled via a blockbuster.
Hyman is much more of a top-sixer than the others, but I think any of them would look better on the right of
Ryan Strome and
Artemi Panarin than
Colin Blackwell does, for example, and arguably than
Kaapo Kakko does.
By the way, it was Panarin who frequently asked coach David Quinn, if not begged or demanded, that Blackwell be on his right rather than Kakko, among others. Quinn usually deferred.