I have to admit I’d look at shopping Hanifin too at this point, there’s nothing game breaking enough in what he brings that would make me disappointed to see him go. Solid defender who can eat minutes but it’s appearing more and more like that’s what his ceiling is and to me it’s only a matter of time before Kylington takes his PP time.
Shipping Hanifin and Monahan out also would give the flames a ton of flexibility to not only retain high end expiring talent (Gaudreau, Mangiapane, Tkachuk, Kylington, Vladar) but it might even allow them to pursue another top 6 forward and would certainly force the Flames to look at giving some of their ELC draft choices time vs league min or 1 mill contracts on the Pitlicks and Richardson’s of the league.
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