Next years roster: pending Free Agents, our talent farm, or both?
After last night's loss against the Sharks, it's become increasingly clear we will probably be bottom 5 in the draft this year. However, in the off-season, if you were in Kyle Dubas' post, what would you do and what lines would you have?
-Get free agents
-Use our talent farm, especially players who already have NHL minutes (Poulin, Pickering, Imama, Blomqvist, etc)
-Combo of the two
Projected 2025-26 lines barring trades:
Rakell-Crosby-Rust
Bunting-Geno-Tomasino(re-signed)
Lizotte-Poulin*-Kiovunen
Imama-McGroaty*-Pulijujarvi
Letang-Grzelyck(resigned)
Bruneckie-Pickering
EK-Aho
Nedeljkovic (starter)
Blomqvist
EDIT TO ADD: Trades are hard to predict and the way it's looking we are loading up on picks and prospects given our recent performance. only trades I see happening are maybe goalies
E2: Kiovunen doesn't play center, I went off of puckpedia for him. He's a Right side player so I moved him to RW3 from C4