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Originally Posted by pepper24
If Monahan and Bennett continue to be our future top 2 centers what are the chances we trade Backlund during his UFA season next year or this summer? We also have Jankowski progressing nicely as our future 3rd line center. Tough to give up on Monahan and Bennett at 21 and 20 when Backlund is 27. A long runway for Jankowski as well.
Monahan (1/2)
Bennett (1/2)
Jankowski (3)
AHL guy/F. Hamilton
Bennett and Tkachuk will need to get paid in a few years. Backlund will also deserve a raise.
Good problems to have for the Flames.
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Re-signing Backlund should be a priority for the team. Even if you project younger players as centres full time, I can't see Bennett or Jankowski being better than Backlund in just two years.
Backlund, Stajan and Bouma all expire at the same time - if they just give Backs the money from those contracts on a 5-year deal, he gets $5.325M, and we still walk away netting $1.75M in capspace.
If they have to trade him later, they can. For now, they don't have the luxury of walking away.