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Originally Posted by madmike
They don't really though. If Gaudreau leaves, Tkachuk is much less likely to come back and will need to be dealt sooner rather than later if they want to maximize their return. At that point it's rebuild time - whether they want to or not.
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Forced into a rebuild is sound logic. But I do not believe they're going to throw in the towel. There's still other extremely good players to build around. Lindholm is getting seriously overlooked here as a cornerstone of this franchise. Then Markstrom and Andersson and Mangiapane if he signs reasonably.
If they lose both I can see them going full ham on 4 year deals for high end UFAs this offseason.
The next 48 hours are going to be crazy.