It's very hard to imagine Colorado not feasting on our D in this game.
Having Kuzmenko and Boeser really screws up our ability to meaningfully shake up lines, IMO.
I actually feel like Pettersson would do better if he were given two forechecking guys and less skill support, at this point. But you can't have Kuzmenko playing on the bottom lines-- he would just create more problems there where they didn't exist before, IMO. So you're kind of stuck.
Hoglander - Pettersson - Mikheyev
is actually something I would have been interested in seeing. I suspect that the reason Hoglander hasn't worked with Pettersson is primarily because he's such an awful fit with Kuzmenko.
I don't think laterally replacing Mikheyev with Hoglander is going to really do much of anything, personally.