My Crack At Best 23 Man Rostert No ELCs

Should go with Dahlin over Makar, and spend more upfront. Or replace Hakanpaa+Makar with Dahlin+Dobson/Pesce or something. If you want even LD and RD, then replace Miller as well.

Don't mind that. First run had Makar/Dahlin/Montour, but left me a bit short of course so made the change here, along with a couple others. I'd really like to keep Miller cause he's just one of those guys for me I'm way higher on, but going something like Dahlin/Montour/Pesce on the right side is super solid and gives a bit more consistency tp to bottom.

What would you suggest to do upfront? Will admit that the top 6 is a bit of a step down from most of these I've seen, but I think the blue line is insane (as is or with the changes you had) and makes up for it. Absolutely love the Marchand/Verhaeghe combo for 10 mil, and think that there's a lot of value/money on the top 2 RW, even if there's not a top, top end guy. I really really love the bottom 6 though, think that's insane value across the board and the only thing I'd really consider changing is Tex (went with him cause CBJ fan + he was playing insane prior to going to France for personal reasons).

Well, I would drop Maroon and go with a 22-man roster, if it has to be 23-man then take Connor Brown at 775k. Would give you 2.325M up front to replace Texier. If you can find a bit more to get to 2.5M can get Barabanov. Maybe Hartman over Stephenson? Probably, better to play Liljegren and get a cheaper 7th over Hakanpaa though. At 3M there's Duchene.

I did consider Duchene, but at center I'd rather have either of Necas/Stephenson for the same/less. Not a bad option to upgrade on the wing, but I personally think there's better places to spend that extra 1.5 difference.

Decided to make these changes to end up with what I have now

In - Robertson (Playing RW), Sprong, Dahlin, Pesce
Out - Makar, Nylander, Texier, Hakanpaa, Maroon

Also swapped Sandin in for Liljegern, but same salary so just a preference change there.
Do like this change a bit over the original, though I had the 23 man roster since that's what others were doing, so feels a bit like cheating to just run the normal 22 haha.

Would add that you could upgrade from Robertson to Rantanen or Tkachuk (if you consider that one) by swapping out Pesce for one of Sandin/Liljegren and having the other as 7th D or some other change along those lines, but I thought the difference from Robertson wasn't worth the D downgrade personally.

Haha, well if you got to go back to 23-man then put in Connor Brown at 775K, and look for someone cheaper than Sprong I guess lol or Robo. Teams looks much more solid now with that Dcore imo.