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Originally Posted by ComixZone
I'd probably go:
1. Trade both
2. Sign Hanifin at around 7x8, trade Lindholm
3. Sign Lindholm, at around 9x8, trade Hanifin
4. Keep both
I'm beginning to believe that teams should really only be buying significant chunks of UFA years from top tier players as the value just doesn't seem to be there from non-top tier players. Pay the premium/term on 2nd and maybe shorter term 3rd contracts, but keep the door revolving as those contracts come to an end and shuffle in the next wave through the returns on players. I don't think Lindholm is a player that we should be buying all of those years spanning age 30-38, and while I'd be less hesitant to do with Hanifin due to his current age, I still wouldn't want to buy 28-36 of his either...but I feel like his game will age better, hence the order of the points above.
As gross as it looks at times, there's something to be said about Vegas' lack of loyalty to the players. Team first, always.
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13 of Vegas’s starting 18 forwards and dmen played a game for them in 19/20.
As a comparable 8 of the Flames starting 18 from last year played a game for them in 19/20.
The lesson from Vegas is definitely not that players are interchangeable.