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Originally Posted by rogermexico
1. Which of Gaudreau or Tkachuk are more likely to re-sign long term? Figure that out before the 28th and trade the other one. Get the best return you can but get a return of some sort. Don't get stuck watching both of them leave. Don't nickel and dime the one who's staying: this is now your offensive star player - not your best all-around player, not necessarily the captain, but your star winger. Give them a good contract that they'll be happy with to take them through the rest of your prime. But you need certainty around who's staying and you need to extract value out of whoever isn't.
2. Everything else.
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I agree. It’s all about Tkachuk and Gaudreau. If we are keeping them long term we need to know this summer. What happens with them dictates what we should be doing at free agency. Both want to stay and we land guys like Coleman and Edler we need to be prepared to move someone out. Monahan would get my vote
If Tkachuk or Johnny aren’t staying or both we need to see what the return on their trades are. If it’s bad contracts and prospects and any what underwhelming return then why do we sign Coleman and edler types? We aren’t winning.
If we can move those guys for picks and prospects only no bad contracts back and we can make a run a guys like landeskog then maybe we will be in a spot to win now. Just doubt landeskog comes here if wr are dumping Tkachuk and Gaudreau for prospects. Maybe just 1 not both
It’s hard to plan or have an opinion until we know if our top 2 players stay and for how much. Tkachuk and Gaudreau stay but get over paid we can’t be signing Coleman or edler types either