Rafferty had 45 points in 57 games as a 24 year old rookie last year. Here is Canuck's army evaluation.
https://canucksarmy.com/2020/05/11/raff/and Rathbone is only 21 but was judged to be the best of Chatfield, Joulevi and Rafferty in training camp. Scouts are drooling over him and project as a 1st pairing dman. However it was felt he would be better off playing big minutes in Utica then 10 minutes a night on the 3rd pairing or worse as the 7th D in the press box. I'll be very surprised if they are not both on the team next year.
And I forgot Kole Lind. They're converting him to centre this year. With the switch he may need two years on the farm but he looks to make the team next year as well. That could be 4 rookies next year.
Hughes - Rafferty
Rathbone -Schmidt
Joulevi - Chatfield
keep one of Hamonic/Edler as - 7th
Saunter - 8th
Myers - Kraken ......fingers crossed!
4 rookies this year, (MacEwen, Joulevi, Hoglander, Chatfield) and 3-4 next year. That will help their salary cap issues, and set them up really well for the next several years as Pettersson and Hughes come into their prime production years.
Or more likely Benning will trade a couple of them at the trade line for Taylor Hall to make a push for the cup this year, and I'll be ranting and throwing things.