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Originally Posted by Mathgod

The obvious answer seems to be to get Monahan & Lucic off next year's books. Lucic has been awesome for us this year, but mathematically you can't keep everyone next year...

Zadorov, Gudbranson, Pitlick, and Brouwer come off the books at the end of this season. Between the 6 aforementioned players, that's $20.5M coming off the books if you can move Mony & Lucic without retaining any salary. That could theoretically cover the salary increases for Johnny, Chucky, Eatbread, Kylli, as long as they don't sign for astronomical cap hits, and the players brought in to replace the departing players come in at low cap hits. However that still leaves the question of Toffoli's hit. Maybe Dube goes the other way in the trade, freeing up some space.

The only other possibility is to move one of the big 2 at this year's deadline. But with this team's top lines gelling extremely well right now, the phrase "if it aint broke don't fix it" applies here.

That said, finding a way to add Toffoli would be awesome, and would significantly boost this team's chances of making a deep playoff run this year. Make it happen Tre!

I think he was assuming a trade this year.

I actually think there’s no way Montreal trades Toffoli. He’s the piece they’d want to keep.