Karlsson & Pacioretty

Nice return for Patch.

This would certainly make Tampa pretty scary for the next season but they'll have a hard time keeping it all together and if Karlsson regresses in his 30's the team would be terrible in 3-5 years and would have very little options to move bad contracts out.

Swap Stralman and Karlsson so you always have one of the two out there for 80% of the game.

Only reason for the 4 stars is that this would be a cup winning team, meaning the 2019 st rounder would already be on the way to the NYR. You'll have to juggle that around.

It's a WIN or DIE!!!! BIG return for MTL, but 2 cap dumb....

Habs would love it, Sens may get better prospects than that elsewhere. But Yzerman is way smarter than that, he knows he has to keep some young and relatively cheap talent around to balance his cap problems going forward. The team above works for just one season within the cap, and then explodes when Karlsson goes up to $11M per year, Pacioretty goes up to $6.5M per year, and you still need to re-sign Kucherov, Point and McDonagh. Any all-star team like this has to have some balance of new talent coming in each year on the bottom end of the salary scale.