Trying to get into playoffs ultimately lose in first round

How they’re literally an upgraded version of the pens who are legit cup contender lol first line wingers maybe aren’t quiet as good but Couturier>Malkin, way deeper, pretty similar if not a little better on D.

That's what I thought, just a better version of the Penguins.

This is the best team in the NHL….

It is a good team but with the cap space you have you can make some big improvements. I would drop Zucker, Carter, and Aube-Kubel and add Guentzel, Rust, and Patrick. Then lines would be:
Guentzel-Crosby-Rust That line is so good together.
Giroux-Couturier-Konecny would be a very strong all around
Farabee-Patrick-Kapanen
Laughton-Blueger-McCann

Then if there is enough cap left swap out Ceci for Dumoulin.

Carter>>>>Patrick

I like all this except like @Chigurrhh said, Carter >>> Patrick. The dude is a beast, 4 goals last game.

I was thinking of it as Rust > Carter and Patrick > Aube-Kubel but you could just replace Aubrey-Kubrick with Rust or if you want to keep the number of players per team even which is what I thought you were doing drop McCann in favor of Rust and then you still have 4 centers.

Ok, I'll try that.