Quoting: Sebybbq
Last year was last year! With johns and polak on the right side you wont win the cup! Let’s take a look of the last 10 team that add win the stanley cup all of them add a very solid top four.
Man, you are severely underrating Stephen Johns. Before he went down with his injury, he was a solid shutdown blue liner for Dallas. He's a strong, physical presence with a cannon of a shot from the blue line. He routinely saw roughly 18 minutes a night, and was primed to see an uptick in minutes until his concussion. He's been on the ice working out this offseason, and has been cleared by his doctors. I'm not saying he's Petry, but saying that the Stars
CAN'T win a Cup with him in the top-4 is very short-sighted, especially when you made the claim that guys like Justin Braun and Brendan Dillon are a key reason that San Jose was in the Conference Finals. Before his injury, Johns played an identical role with nearly identical minutes.
And even if he does play a 3rd pair role, the Stars have Gavin Bayreuther is NHL ready, and is ready for a 2nd pair role in Dallas. With Heiskanen's history playing on the right side (where he spent most of his career in Finland), it gives Dallas a lot of flexibility with their defensemen.
I know as a Canadiens fan, you'd love for Montreal to pick up another 1st round pick, but the Stars aren't going to move their 1st (especially in a deep draft) unless it fills an absolute
NEED for the Stars. Their defense is better this year, so if they move the pick it'll likely be for some offensive firepower up front, depending on how their top-6 is looking.