When you look at the hawks right now, Los Angeles, Anaheim, it gets harder to justify signing this core group after the end of their respective deals.
In my mind you target gaudreaus final contract year as the end of the window to compete before you need to reload.
The timing works with the age of the defense as conceivably valimaki, Andersson, hanifin, maybe kylington, are an established defensive group in their primes years (25-30).
An injection of young goal scoring talent by way of draft and prospect acquisitions via sell-off of Monahan and gaudreau is how you win multiple times with Tkachuk.
If there is a specific market one of those players wants to go and that market is interested then great, price goes up, but I'm not interested in this core group outside of tkachuk beyond their contract years.
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