I'd be picking MacKinnon if I was in the Avs shoes.
MacKinnon and Duchene is a sick one-two punch that will anchor that team down the middle for at least a decade.
Use trades and free agency to rebuild their defense, and they'd have a couple nice pieces to start doing that with Stastny and O'Reilly, plus they'd have the added bonus of removing O'Reilly from their locker room and working towards removing the supposed divide they have between O'Reilly and Duchene.
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