Jannik Hansen

veteran defensemen around them that can teach them the way that can not hold their hand but make sure that when the times are tough like that there's somebody there to answer the bell as well so it's not so much how many it's more so that the young players have that protection around them on their line

And then the other lines can kind of figure it out from there.

So if you're bringing in two young forwards in your lineup, well, then you probably need four established players to play with them in order to insulate them a little bit.

And you're bringing in a new young defenseman, well, then you need a veteran defenseman, Philip Hronik, to play with them or somebody like that.

So it's not a set number.

It's more so which position you're drafting and who's going to help these guys out.

Then I'd probably keep him around.

Yeah, it's good to have second and third round draft picks if you need to move them out or trade up or something like that or shift around.

But DeBrusque in the right situation is a 20-25 goal scorer.

If you have him do that in a proper setting, you should be able to get more for him.

Obviously, the value on a lot of these players are not where you want it to be, maybe minus Hronik.

So again, I'm hoping that you can find a way to put a couple of quality lines together here for this year.

And then let's see where we are a couple of months or six months from now when the season is into it.

Are these guys producing?

Are they scoring?

And then let's see if there's something to be done because the contracts for what you're paying them, if they play up to what we kind of know and expect they should be doing, they're not bad.

And then there are players that you'd want on winning teams as well.

Are they necessarily players you want when you're at the bottom of the standings?

No, they carry a little bit too much salary.

And again, they're on the wrong side age-wise.