Wow, where to begin: Risto is RD thus he would be first pair right side and Kulikov will be paired with him. McCabe is LD thus would be on the left side and would be on the second pairing with Bogo on the right side. Gorges and Franson would be 3rd pairing. McCormick has announced he was retiring due to medical, so would be on LTIR and not centering the 4th line. Larsson should be centering the 4th line and my guess is Foligno will be the LW on that 4th line as well. I don’t see Rienhart being on the 3rd line just so he can play center, so he would be on the second line RW, where he played last year. Ennis would be first or second line LW. Moulson should on the 3rd line LW with Girgensons at center.

The trade would leave the Sabres without another a good option to put on the LW with either the top line or second line depending on where you stick you Ennis. Not to mention, your basically trading Kane straight up for Virtanen which I don’t see the value coming back to the Sabres to make this worthwhile. I’m guessing because he was a 6th overall pick in 2014 so he should have skill but he has what 55 games in the NHL. This is also saying I don’t know much about Virtanen’s game just don’t see trading a top 6 left winger for a guy we are going to throw on the 3 line RW when we have a lot of RW ready to make the next step and short on LW top talent.

Risto just magically appears on Vancouver?