Ranking Forward Groups across the league.

[Pavel Buchnevich]

2nd or 3rd line depending on how much sheltering the young guys need. I'd argue he's too good for the 4th line.

He also had a very unsustainable season last year. He's not a bad player, but I'm certainly not putting him in the top 9 over any of those players I named, aside from maybe Lemieux. This is how you end up with significant prospects being busts, which Andersson is looking like, but if you aren't going to give the kid a chance and are instead going to play marginal players instead, thats a good recipe for a player to bust. The team has a coaching problem if a waivers caliber player is taking away top nine minutes from NHL ready first round picks like Chytil, Andersson and Howden.