The way I see it, you sign Backlund using Stajan's expiring deal to rebalance centres. Have a guy making <1.25M as 4th line C, give that extra 2M to Backlund. When Tkachuk, Bennett and Ferland all need new deals, that coincides with last year of Brouwer, Stone, Hamonic and Brodie. Trade/buyout Brouwer, and since internal growth can fill spots on D, pick 1 of those D to trade (ideally Stone, unless one of the others has priced themselves out). That, plus growth in the cap should help, and if there are guys on cheap deals in net, that helps even more.
Make Jankowski the 4th C until he earns #3, then worry about moving Bennett to wing. I would rather have a team with too many centres, converting one to wing, rather than losing a very good 2 way centre.
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