[Sylvanfan]

It will somewhat depend on what Direction the team wants to go. If they are going more of a rebuild route, than losing Tanev's cap hit, plus being out of Gio's to start the 2022 season clears out a lot of money. Plus I still think a pending UFA Giordano with salary retained will return some sort of draft capital next year, and it would be an okay return. Gio's play has fallen off, but the hyperbole around here that would make you think he couldn't play Mens rec league is really off. A contending team that could add him to the third pair and use him as insurance if a top 4 guy did go down and help on the PP has value...Rob Ramage anyone?

But if you are going rebuild you might also want to keep a vet around who's not that much older than the Hanifan/Anderson/Valimaki to properly mentor these guys.

Tanev would project to be the more effective guy going forward, but he also has 13.5 million in risk and 3 years left going forward. So if you tried to trade him next year, how much does that bring down a return...so even if you keep him you can't sell him for much for another 3 years...pushing out the impact of the return to 6 years sort of thing.

If the team still wants to compete and I think that's what they'll want to do, they probably opt to give something to Seattle to take something else and keep both. Likley one of these extra 2022 picks they picked up in the past couple days.

For me though from a cost/asset risk standpoint...expose Tanev, hope he get's taken, than you trade Gio at the deadline. free's up 11.25 million in cap space in a flat cap world, which brings a lot of potential oppurtunity into play. A chance to acquire assets the players on their own can't.