I personally prefer the idea of not extending Glencross and trading him at the deadline as I feel he's going to be one of the better wingers available at the time, considering who I think are going to be the 'sellers,' and I think we could get a 1st rounder for him this spring.
However, I'd be fine with giving Glencross a short, high-dollar-value contract with no NTC. Something like 3 years at 5.5 million. Definitely an overpayment, but you give him those dollars to incentivize the short term and the lack of an NTC.
He'd get some assurance he wouldn't be moved as the dollar amount would act as a de-facto NTC until the final year of the contract, depending on how his production goes.
Also, for those who are saying he's on the 'downside', his PPG stats over the last few years have been 0.54, 0.72, 0.65, 0.63. That looks to me like someone who's had a career-year and then settled in to their average production. I think he'll probably put up around 0.60 ppg for the next three to five seasons, the only question will be how many games he plays over that time.
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