Sure, let's play the fantasy game, 3 years from now:
We've done some prospect swapping. Gaunce/Fox go to Detroit and Jensen ends up in Pittsburgh, and we get Jurco (+pick) and Dumoulin in return, who both are homeruns for us. We go hard after Schultz during one of the offseasons and eventually get him. Danny settles down as a mentor-type playmaker for our 2015 top pick Rantanen, who is bound to take over Henrik once he runs out of steam. Shinkaruk and Virtanen are already ready for that. The brothers promise to stay on the team till retirement and promised third line time for the last few years, a decided gamble from our GM. Burrows and Bieksa are the other two veterans who take on discount deals to eventually retire as Canucks. Burrows' game translates well to the fourth line and Bieksa is getting ready to transition into a coaching position, showing the ropes to Tryamkin and Stewart already.
Kassian never reaches his potential and is traded elsewhere as someone else is willing to take a chance on him. With the return from that trade and other assets we move up in 2016 and snag Jesse Puljujärvi. Finnish user turkulad won't stop about a chance of icing a line called The Finnish Connection (Virtanen-Rantanen-Puljujärvi), and is pleased to see Salo has been brought in on the team as an assistant GM.
As Bonino and Horvat end up having great chemistry and playing like 2nd line players on our third, the 2014 offseason ends up becoming our best ever with only Pettit and Forsling busting and McCann dominating in Utica. Friesen and Cassels have become fan favorites on the bottom lines and we're hoping Henrik's time is up before we lose them so we could run a Rantanen-Bonino-Cassels-Friesen center depth for a while, until McCann pushes somebody out. Fans on HFB are trying to get their hands on Lucic to no avail but there's some legit potential to sign Lucic despite the antagonism of Boston/Vancouver that has been going on for years.
Edler has been the scapegoat for the last 5 years but he still works fairly well with Schultz and we continue the tradition of having a lot of #2 guys but not a true #1 D. We're dead set on getting one with one of our newest draft picks, as we've gone a bit offboard to select some really intriguing bust-boom types. Although with Tryamkin, Dumoulin and Corrado we are doing quite fine.
Demko absolutely dominates all the levels he's played at, which sets us up with another goalie controversy, and everything's right in the universe. In the end, we do end up losing Lack for some futures and are the laughing stock of the league, but with Demko taking the Calder trophy and getting 4th most Vezina votes at the same time.. who cares. Cannata is a good sport and ends up becoming that stable, non-controversial backup goalie we know ain't gonna challenge for a #1 spot but is more than happy to cover for whoever is the latest man of the year on net. Hopefully that guy is Demko for a long while.
Shinkaruk-Sedin-Virtanen
Sedin-Rantanen-Jurco
Horvat-Bonino-Vey
Kenins-Cassels-Burrows
Friesen
Edler-Schultz
Dumoulin-Tanev
Tryamkin-Corrado
Stewart-Bieksa
Demko
Cannata