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Pretty much agree with the patient approach. Who know what the actual returns would be, but moving Bean, Elvis, Provorov, Kuraly, and Olivier seems to be the right move. Of those 5, I'd be fine with keeping Olivier as a 4th liner over someone like Dumais or Brindley playing down there.
My concern is there's a ton of question marks all over the roster. Can Mateychuk and Jiricek hit their potential, within a year or two? If they don't, that D-core is worse than this year potentially. Can we attract and afford a UFA like Drai? If we don't, our 1C is a very fresh Fantilli. Is Laine going to be a top-6 player again? If not, our right side could be very mid. Are Knight and Greaves NHL goaltenders? If not, obvious concern there.
It's the right track, and even without Drai this team should be contending within the next 3 years. But that's a lot of question marks on development that need to get sorted.