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Originally Posted by Macho0978
I see this as the best way to move forward. I like a lot of the players that I think we can move on from but I feel the best way to fix this is get younger and add a top prospect from this years draft. Ton's of high end prospects that drafting in the top 10 even if it is late top 10 can provide us with an all star. The nest way to do this is trade a few guys for picks and bring some guys up.
Toffoli - Pelletier
Backlund - Zary
Mangiapane - Coronato/Phillips
Tanev/Hanifin - Kylington (hopefully)
Markstrom - Wolf
I'm not suggesting we need to trade all of these guys but even some could drive us in the top 5 pick discussion. This won't happen but I'm ok to move any of these guys and be comfortable with the replacement we already have in the AHL. Cap savings is around $20 mil as well and it really doesn't destroy the team if the young guys play well
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Backlund with young wingers coming up? I would make him Captain. Keep Tanev for the same reason and give him the A. The rest...bye, bye, wait out the Lucic contract, show the Head Coach the door, buy out Kylington, if he comes around offer him a PTO down the road.