Well firstly, I think Hanifin will get more in the neighbourhood of 5m per if he signs for that extra UFA year.

I do agree with your top line though, Lindholm should get first crack at riding shotgun with Johnny n Monny just because they've never had a competent right shot RW play with them before and it could create some new looks and creativity from Johnny.

Not sure if Bennett deserves to play top 6 minutes considering the depth we've acquired, would rather see Backlund reach his peak offensive potential by having two dynamic wingers like Tkachuk and Neal to give us that 1-2 offensive punch.

Your point about 3rd lines being crucial is valid, but I think with the first two lines set up that way you can still have a solid third line putting ryan on the RW with janko and bennett/frolik. Would do it that way for two reasons: 1) we don't have quite the level of talent that PIT n WSH have to be able to spread the wealth as much as they can and 2) I feel Janko is going to take a big step forward this year and playing him in a diminished 4th line role would hinder his development considerably.

Also hope Tre can pull off some wizardry and get someone to take Brouwer's cap hit.

It's gonna be very interesting to see how the lines look on opening night, so many possible combos.

I gotta give Treliving credit, he has really reshaped the forward group and it is very deep now