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Originally Posted by howard_the_duck
We can't rebuild now because we have too many veterans signed to long-term deals. So the answer is to sign another veteran to a long-term deal, if all goes south in a year, then rebuild? That would then just make it even more difficult, and you've needlessly made another long-term investment to a player who spends >half of the contract post-apex.
Now's precisely the time to rebuild. Actually, it was last offseason, but there won't be a 'better' time than now.
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When the Lindholm extension starts, these are the contracts on the books with term remaining.
Forwards:
-Huberdeau (7) $10.5M
-Kadri (5) $7M
-Coleman (3) $4.9M
Defense:
-Weegar (7) $6.25M
-Andersson (2) $4.55M
Goalies:
-Markstrom (2) $6M
$39.2M total cap commitments.
They have the ability to dramatically Re-shape the roster any number of ways.
Someone has to play with Huberdeau. Since it can’t be Kadri, it may as well be Lindholm.
If he’s more Backlund than Bergeron by years 6/7/8, it really doesn’t hurt you that much.
There are too many quality pieces on this roster for them to hit bottom the way we might like, so sell high on Hanifin, and get what you can for Toffoli, Tanev and Zadorov - they’re older, slower players and they are not irreplaceable.
If you want to trade Lindholm, it opens up a gigantic whole In your roster that would likely cost whatever you got for Lindholm + something else.
So just keep the guy you have, who wants to be here (hypothetically).