Leonard I feel will be a full time starter this year if not 100% by 2022.
Melnichuyk or Korenar one of them should be backing up by 2022 if not 2021.
I would love Tierney back he was one of my Favorite
Won’t Marleau be back going for game #2000 lol
And sadly I think at least 1 if not 2 or scarily maybe even all 3 will still be here in 2022
Vlassic for sure as buying him out won’t be logical till 2024 and trading him or him retiring before that just won’t happen.
Jones and Burns both might be trade-able if they play well in 2021 again why retire from Guaranteed money? Make them buy you out.

But I do like your post, sorry for being so contradictory.

I do see a lot I agree with it the post (like the need of making moves to acquire talent) but also in @Revans292 comment

Vlasic is buyout proof for a while
Burns could be selected by Seattle if he had a good year (I do think we protect him even if he plays well)
Jones - I mean there’s been talk he’s actually been improving with this offseason with the new goalie trainer (can’t remember his name but he’s getting more popular for aiding goalies). So we’ll see how that goes but I think he’ll be bought out eventually as it’s more probable than him playing well.

Leonard is gonna play this year we think. And many of these
Moves are just so hard to predict since many of these players new to the team that you acquired could be bad or signed elsewhere/ just don’t fit our trajectory currently. Teams good but so hard to predict some moves. And Gregor is taking the 3C this year which I personally didn’t expect so if that pans out that changes a lot.

I like Hughes but I think he’ll go in the teens so hopefully we can acquire another pick in 2021 and get someone else too. If we suck then I’d really wanna get Hughes with a later pick if ours is high. Either way I like the choice of inserting him.