My biggest concern is being too soft to play against.
You're gona have a left side o
Hughes
OEL
Hirose
Right side of
Hronek
Bear
Myers
All soft players.
I think that left side could actually be very good defensively if balanced right.
OEL has had his flaws but he played 22+ minutes a game over 79 games last year as a plus 5 overall. This year he played 20 minutes a game over 54 games as a -24. He's not particularly liked here but I think its very likely that with better health he will be better next year.
On the right side Hronek is a proven top 4. General expectation seems to be that Hronek anchors the 2nd pair. That would pair him with OEL, which would be a huge step up from Myers in terms of having reliability in your partner.
From there, I would be happy to put Myers on the 3rd, shoot Bear into the sun, and sign a RD to play with Hughes (Mayfield is my ideal for 4-5mil on 2-3 years) but Myers costs too much so the reality is that he must go and we'll need to use a guy like Burroughs as our 3RD.
I would move towards something like:
Hughes - Mayfield
OEL - Hronek
Hirose - Burroughs
That's putting a lot on Hirose but based on the Brisebois and Wolanin signings as well, we seem to be trying to fill the left side as cheap as possible and make back some of the lost cap value from the OEL contract.