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Honestly this would be fantastic. Joseph breaking out definitely makes C. Brown expendable if Giroux does end up signing here (hopefully his breakout is legit and not like Gaudette’s lol, although he’s still useful defensively even if the offense dries up) and that 3rd line should be fun to watch next year, and eventually develop into a solid 2-way line capable of providing some secondary scoring while being defensively responsible.
Who is your preferred choice at the draft? Assuming we don’t win the lottery, I’ve been on the Slafkovsky train for a long time, but if we draft him that puts 5 lefties in our long term top 6 (at least Fiala can play RW). If we draft Savoie or Kemell though, then Stutzle is the biggest player on our long term 2nd line lol. Unless we shuffle a bit and run Tkachuk-Norris-Savoie/Kemell // Fiala-Stutzle-Batherson.
I would also rather use Jarventie than JBD in the Fiala deal.