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There is nothing wrong with the selection of players, I just had a few notes.
1. Juulsen won't be played on the left side over Mete. Therefore the most likely 3rd pairing is Mete-Juulsen with Fleury as the 7th D man or in the AHL with Ouellet as the 7th.
2. Why sign Gagner? we could bring up Belzile, Yelonen, Vejdemo or Dauphin as a 13th forward
3. The next offseason we will have 5 Mil in cap space with Suzuki, Evans, Romanov and Juulsen to resign. Suzuki alone likely takes up that entire 5 Mil so we would then have to move some of Lehkonen, Anderson, Taffoli, Edmondson, Poehling or Danault to make space and would once again be trading from a position of weakness. Best option is to not sign one of Tatar or Danault. Depending on Danault's position on playing 3rd line center I would prefer to keep him.