It’s always a fun, but clearly futile exercise to project an NHL roster far out. Trades will decimate this, and pretty much no one trades more than Jim Rutherford. Outside of about 6-7 core players, he tends to flip just about his entire roster every two-three years. That will no doubt happen again.
To further the unknown is the situation with a huge, unprecedented cloud over the future salary caps, due to potential crowd interruptions in the coming months (and years?) due to the continuing economic and health situation caused by the global pandemic.
Since that can’t be known right now either, we’ll push that aside too.