Appleton and Barron where they should be like you have here would be a good start.

Two wingers that need to carry the 3 million dollar captain is tough, niedreiter and iafallo going to have to be ridiculously good for this squad to bubble. Connor and scheifele going to pull their weight up front, need a rather large boost from ehlers and perfetti, not sure if it’s there. Solid performance from journeyman Russian, and ahl fourth line, this team is getting tougher to watch. Blueline is rather pedestrian, is samberg and heinola the 2 best dman they can develop in their system? Screams something wrong, but hopefully I’m wrong

I like this lineup. The only thing I might change is to swap Iafallo and Niederreiter, but I no quarrels with the way you have it setup.

I’m the same, I would have 3 possible moving parts, iafallo to 3lw, niedreiter to 2lw, and possibly have a combo of scheifele/perfetti on 1c, depending on feel of how that line shakes out. If bad, just leave him where he is and iafallo and niedreiter interchangeable parts.