It seems as though McMann is the odd man out to start the year.
To be honest, I'm not even sure where I stand on this.
You've gotta like the fact that you're going to have a former multi-30 goal scorer - a guy who has scored 82 goals in his past 210 games (a 32 goal pace) playing on what is potentially your 3rd line. In terms of coming up with a just backbreaking goal to break a game open like Nick Paul and Corey Perry have done to us in the past, I think it's great.
But there is a flipside.... you've got Matthews, Marner, Tavares, Nylander, Domi, Robertson and now Pacioretty who are all primarily offensive-driven players. If all of these guys are in your lineup, it's going to be tough to put together a "shutdown" line that isn't centered by Auston Matthews.