If Hanifin and Backs don’t want to the-sign, this is great news. East to dump both and frees over 10 mil for a cash strapped team. Backs will fetch a decent return and Hanifin a haul. O’Reilly who’s signed on to come the the Flames before would be a great shorty term stop gap and fill up with picks from those two trades. We need to dump a least a couple players to make extensions for some of the soon to be UFA’s happen. Getting rid of 10 mil pays Lindholm and Toffoli for example. Has to be done. Get a 10-15 1st in 2023 and the Flames are laughing to the bank with this. Really think O’Reilly would be a great short term option as 3C.
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