John 3 16
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Right now I'd rather have Tkachuk. Our lineup would be perfect with him (particularly due to Graves' emergence), and Byram still hasn't played an NHL game.
Landeskog --- Mackinnon ---- Rantanen
Tkachuk ---------- Kadri --------- Burakovsky
Namestnikov -- Compher ---- Donskoi
Nichuskin ------ Bellemare ---- Calvert
(Jost/Kaut/Bowers/O'Connor)
Graves --- Makar
Girard --- Johnson
Cole ----- Timmins
It's crazy to think that this actually could have been our lineup had Ottawa simply given us the 2018 pick instead of 2019.
That said, I think we'll all be equally delighted (if not more so) once we have Byram on the team. At that stage we'll probably also manage to solve the top 6 forward position by moving a combination of Graves/Zadorov/Jost.