I'm no longer attached to anyone on this team.
If Conroy truly wants and has the go ahead to retool, any pending UFA should be shopped. Lindholm, Hanafin, Toffoli, Zadorov, Tanev.
Shop them and gather assets.
One issue I see is that a couple of those guys could potentially fetch more at the trade deadline, but the Flames don't want to put themselves in tbe position of being in playoff contention and wanting to hang on tomtheir UFAs.
Only guy I'd hesitate on is Hanifin purely because of age. He's young enough that he could be a true stud on Defense when the retool is complete.
I think I had heard somewhere that Toffoli likes it here and may be open to staying, which I find interesting because I seem to remember his wife really liked Montreal and didn't want to leave.
From an asset management perspective it makes no sense to keep Toffoli, but I can't help but like guys who like it here.
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