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Originally Posted by SeanCharles
- ROR: we just re-signed Backlund to a long term deal signifying he should be our 2nd/3rd line center for at least the next 3 years. Jankowski is young and has put up 11 goals as a rookie and there are still 19 games to go. ROR also has a massive cap hit, if we want to keep cap space to re-sign Tkachuk, Ferland etc. then this doesn't make much sense unless significant salary goes the other way.
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I think any hypothetical ROR trade (and any similar trade really) needs:
- not touch Hamilton / Brodie / Giordano
- salary going back (Frolik? Ideally Troy.) and prospects (Mangiapane?) but keep key young roster players (Jankowski/Bennett)
- enough retention to get ROR's cap hit below Monahan's (~6.25M)
- to identify if there is a clear power play opportunity for ROR? That's where a lot of his offense historically comes from. Who do you take off the PP - Does that interfere with the development or usefulness of Ferland/Bennett/Jankowski?
- we are adding a key PKer and faceoff man who can take draws on penalties on unit 1, but we are not necessarily unseating Backlund or Jankowski from their given roles. A Tkachuk-Backlund-ROR shutdown line would be a legitimate possibility.