u/Eman_Pop

1. Hire Bruce Cassidy - don't see any other coaching candidate that's better than Butch
2. Draft Mckenna & hope to hit on depth picks
3. Formulate a top down organizational approach on how you want to construct this roster. Chayka, Sundin, AGM's, Head Coach, core/star players should all have some level of input
4. CRITICAL [22 mill in cap space with Robertson, Maccelli as notable RFA's] - shore up defense. Sign Rasmus Andersson, Darren Raddysh, John Carlson (2 Yr deal high AAV) or Ferraro (depth D) - whichever player(s) they think is most likely to have the highest impact with our current roster
5. Figure out your options for 2/3 C. FA options - Dickinson, Laughton, Jenner, Malkin (heh), Kopitar (heh)
6. Kick the tires on the trade market if you can't get Raddysh, Andersson, Ferraro, Carlson - you NEED a puck moving RHD
7. Hope Tanev, Matthews come back fully healthy to start the season. Going to die on the hill that Tanev is super important to this roster just because the depth chart falls off a cliff if he's out
8. Hope Cowan, Mckenna, Knies use this offseason to improve their games
9. Hope Rielly has a bounce back year
10. Hope Tavares can keep up his production turning 37

If they can't hit on the (thin) FA market, it's going to be hard to sell a cup contending team to Matthews. They need to hit on all of their FA's because internally they don't have much coming up the pipeline and their draft capital is lacking as trade ammo.