Hyman - Tavares - Marner
Johnsson - Matthews - Nylander
Moore - Kerfoot - Kapanen
Petan - Spezza - Shore
Rielly - Barrie
Muzzin - Ceci (uh boy)
Dermott - Harpur
Andersen
Hutchinson
Things are not helped by the fact that Dermott won't be ready by the start of the season.
I just took that off of Daily Faceoff, so that may not be what Babs goes with, but that should be pretty close.
IMO the Leafs are a better overall team, but they haven't taken a massive step forward. The question is...do they need to?
Barrie is an elite puckmoving defenseman, though I'd caution Leafs fans on two things. One, he can move the puck amazingly well, but he does so by skating it and jumping into the play. His outlet passing is surprisingly not quite as good as you think it is. Not to say he's bad by any means, but he's not a tape-to-tape Ray Bourque-type of long passer. His downside...yeah, his defense leaves something to be desired. He's no Cody Ceci (heh heh heh) but there will be lapses. He picked up some bad habits from MacKinnon, and both of them improved their own-zone play this last season, probably at the behest of Bednar. So I imagine Babcock will see him take one lax d-zone shift and get that shit fixed but quick.
Listening to Stellick and Simmer now. Apparently Kadri was getting moved no matter what. Babs was done with him. The Leafs were so pissed off at him he had to get his own flight to the hearing in NY, according to them.