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Originally Posted by saillias
Toews is an upcoming UFA. His caphit is 10.5 million. He scored 37 points last year. After seeing the details, GullFoss' proposal is less outlandish than I thought. Toews is producing Backlund numbers while making 8 figures.
Anyone taking him would need to make the money work with players like Lucic and/or Monahan.
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At first I would have said the Blackhawks just retain salary. That they’d find takers for Toews at $5.25M. And while they would, the only teams with room to take on that much salary are teams Toews likely won’t waive his NTC to go to.
In other words, they are going to have to retain AND take significant salary back.
That is of course, if they trade him in the off season. Waiting until the deadline when cap issues won’t be as much of a concern for contenders opens up more possibilities for the Hawks and higher returns.
I think Toews and/or Kane get dealt in February.