I think for a team like this 2-3 years will be the best opportunity. The core of Monahan, Gaudreau, Tkachuk, Brodie, Bennett and Giordano will be in their prime years, except maybe Giordano.
All of the bad contracts will be off the books, Tkachuk, Jankowski, Poirier, Klimchuk, Anderson, Kylington, and Mangiapane will be on ELC or likely bare minimum contracts. Depending on how Bennett's season goes, he'll probably be on a bridge-contract. If you can get a top 6 winger like Tkachuk making under a million, a top 6 center like Bennett on a bride-contract, and a couple of depth players on ELC's, that's going to be huge for the salary cap structure.
Combined with Brodie's amazing contract, that's a lot of cap space to fill out the remainder positions with quality depth players, if not a couple bonafide top 6/top 4 UFA's.
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