Some of those defensemen for the Habs when they went deep in the Covid bubble playoffs:
Chiarot - Wings
Petry - Wings
Edmunsen - playing well for Toronto
Kulak - playing well for Edminton
Gudbransen - playing for Rangers
Weber - Retired

Tampa - Free agents Stamkos UFA $8.5 Duclair UFA $3M Motte UFA $800,000 Watson UFA $776,000 Chafee UFAA $775000 Dumba UFA $3.9M DeHaan UFA $.800,000 Fleury UFA $762000 Logan Brown RFA $775000 Seabrook UFA $6.8M $75.1M for the following roster ??? Point kucherov Hagel Cirelli ??? Jeannot Paul Chaffee...

Boston next season Debrusk UFA $4M - if he wants more than $5M, let him go. 19-21-40 JVR UFA $1M - 11=28=38 - good cheap PP help Maroon UFA $800,000 - probably time to let him go Boqvist RFA $775000 - Useful guy Heinen UFA $775000 -17-19=36 - owed a good raise. Grzelcyk UFA $3687000 - 5'10, low prod...

To give Yzerman credit, Kasper and Danielson don't have to force Copp and Compher out of the lineup. They can move them to the wing.
Neither Compher or Copp have been fulltime centers in the league.

Surprised by how exhausted the Stars look

What the fuck. Nobody can score anymore?

This guy was lights out in his first few playoff runs.
He had size, hands, skating and strength.
Should have been a stud.

By year 3, I would expect a nearly unrecognizable division. Tampa will be old. Florida will be capped out. Toronto could still be in the mix. That's D4 for Danielson and ASP. D5 for Kasper. D6 for Cossa and Edvinsson. Detroit should be in the mix by then. Larkin will be 31 Dcat will be 29 Compher wi...