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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814

Mangiapane
Valimaki
Coronato
Zary
Pelletier
Wolf
1st, ‘22
2nd, ‘23

Not a one of those assets would be more valuable in the pursuit of a Stanley cup over the next 5 years as a collective core of Eichel, Gaudreau, Lindholm and Tkachuk.

When you acquire Eichel, you give Gaudreau and Tkachuk a plausible reason to stay. You have a coach who’s won two titles on the last ten years, you have Vezina level goaltending from Markstrom, and the defense can get you the puck.

You can roll four stars across two lines.

I also would be trading 1sts and 2nds every year for actual NHL talent, rather than hoping some kid is going to be ready to play a significant role in the post season at 20.

The fans would rage.

But the core would be Eichel, Gaudreau, Lindholm and Tkachuk up front, Markstrom in goal, with a solid blue line and Darryl behind the bench.

Let’s go.

Now let’s take a package from there and go get Barzal or Larkin or something like that. Wouldn’t even be opposed to a Hanifin upgrade but I’m not sure what’s out there.