Edited Mar. 22, 2023 at 6:51 p.m.
Interesting idea and it's not a Bad Idea for NJD at all. Mang is a Stud who can play Either Wing, Works his butt off and can is a Scoring Threatat Even Strength. He's already proven he can be a Sniper & Power Play Specialist and yet will Kill Penalties too
Freeing Up the Cap Space to use elsewhere, securing a Big Young LD and Holtz's Future Potential would be appealing to CGY for sure, but Mang is a Much Better Winger than most will know by simply looking at his Offensive Production this season. CGY'd still have Toffoli, Kadri, Dube & Huberdeau who can play the Top-6 Wings with Pelletier, Zary, Ruzicka & Coronato & I guess Holtz competing to bump Dube & Toffoli down & out, so it's definitely not a no
NJD could use another Top-6 Scoring Winger now as opposed to waiting for Holtz, who would become expendable with long-term contracts in place for Meier & Bratt and Mangiapane would fit in and do well there for sure
My issue is how do you afford to re-sign Mercer after next season!? Other than that, my Lines would be as follows:
Meier-Hirshier-Bratt
Mangaiapane-Hughes-Mercer
Palat-McLeod-Sharangovich
Foote-Lazar-Bastian