It's perfect.

I'll be even more excited next year when we'll likely see the big three up with the club to start the season.

Where does Dellandrea slot in when he's back? And who comes out?

Depending on how soon he comes back, maybe Johnston (if they only want to do his 9 game stint). If they want to keep him, then likely Kiviranta.

He’ll slot in the 3rd line, he earned it. If they send Johnston to Juniors, he’ll take his place and nothing else will change. If Kivi goes out then the bottom 6 will be:

Benn-Johnston-Dellandrea
Peterson-Faksa-Glendening (ideally Damiani, but we know that’s not happening).

Call me crazy, I still think DeBoer runs out the Marchment-Hintz-Gurianov line that has been so effective this preseason. Putting Seguin between Robetson and Pavelski is the perfect spark to reignite his offensive touch as well. A top-6 of:

Robertson-Seguin-Pavelski
Marchment-Hintz-Gurianov

is a very good & very balanced top-6 for Dallas.

Either or works, we know we’re getting quality either way, only thing I know is that those 6 players are locks for the top 6.

And a thing I find interesting is that in his whole carrer Pavelski has only played with a right handed centre during his rookie year’s in San Jose. Apart from that he’s always played regularly with left handed centres (when he plays as a winger).

I like this roster, and I like the comments.

Johnston stays until Dellandrea gets healthy (probably after 1 or 2 games) and bumps him back to the CHL. There is an outside chance Johnston does well enough to force the Stars to keep him, but he'll have to be REALLY good for the Stars to be willing to give up a year of his ELC. I hope it happens, but I doubt it will.

I also like Mooterus's comment about the Marchment-Hintz-Guri line. Assuming Guri can keep mentally "in it" consistently enough to make that line a constant threat, that's a good top 6. I'd rather have a good top 6 than an elite 1st line and nothing else. But I assume that's going to shift and develop over the duration of the season.

I’m sure I’m in the minority here, but I genuinely Wouldn’t be surprised if this roster made a deep run. The top 6 is VERY solid, bottom 6 finally has some scoring depth, blue line is deep and they have one of the best young goaltenders in the game. I feel confident when it comes to the Stars taking on any team in a 7 game series tbh. The Lundkvist trade + Delly and Johnston making the team are huge difference makers imo