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There’s no way Bouchard is stepping into a Top-4 role. A) Holland just wont do it because he likes to have prospects over-rippen before moving into the NHL. B) He would get slaughtered in a Top-4 role; he should be down in the Bake building confidence and dominating before being brought up.
Instead, IMO, you should leave Russell on the second pair (right side) and bring Jones up to play bottom pair (left side) with Benning. Russell, while on the decline, is still a better D-Man than Jones and Benning.
Also... Haas and his agent have come out and said that if he plays in the AHL for longer than a week (for conditioning and transitioning purposes) he would go back to Europe. So he’ll need to factor into your forwards somewhere.