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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
If Monahan isn’t good to go and struggles to return then you throw him on LTIR and can use a first to add a piece with that cap space.
I just don’t like the idea of moving a 1st to be able to sign Kadri to a $7x7. Whole point of overpaying in UFA is you don’t have to give up an asset to get the player, if you have to move a 1st anyways and still overpay on the contract then it’s not really a good deal IMO
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This is kinda where I am. A lot depends on how Kadri pans out...but there are a lot of warning signs for why it may not (contract year, older guy playing physical game means more injury risk, playoff suspension risk, etc.).
If Kadri is great, it's all worth it. If he's bad, it obviously isn't. If he's just kinda average (most likely) then it's a more interesting question...
1. If Monny ends up spending lots of time on LTIR (I think of NYR buying out Lundqvist...and then him having a career ending medical issue before the next season even started) = regretful
2. If Monny bounces back to be reasonably productive - even if that means trading him mid-season for a conditional pick = probably regretful
3. If Monny is munching popcorn this feels a little better, though the cost to dump him would get cheaper with every passing day of the season.
The one other consideration is that Kadri is unlikely to fetch any assets near the end of his deal. The alternative path of waiting on Monny and using the 1st(+) on a different player with moderate term is that they could have salvage value down the road (e.g. Gourde, Dvorak, or even Josh Anderson who has 5 more yrs, but he'll be roughly Kadri's current age 4 yrs from now).
OTOH we get to integrate Kadri from day 1, and we're unlikely to find anyone else with a similar skillset.