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Originally Posted by Muta
Trade Zadorov and Backlund for picks, boom - bunch of money freed. Easy peasy!
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Sutter being able to give the Backlund/Coleman line most of the d-zone starts and all of the tough defensive match-ups frees up the Johnny/Tkachuk line do what they do best.
If anyone needs to be traded to make space for Gaudreau and Tkachuk, it's Monahan. He's barely producing with easy match-ups and PP time.
$9M/year x 8 years for both Gaudreau and Tkachuk is fine if they want to stay in Calgary.