If I were to guess the game plan - Hanafin or Lindholm will be moved before the season starts in a hockey trade with talks and ideas happening throughout summer, simply because Conroy will want to have at one major pending UFA dealt with to take that pressure off.
He knows the trade deadline is great for returns, but it's where you're going to get a pick haul and maybe a prospect or two. He will want at least one cost controlled Sarangovich type player, therefore it makes sense to get that before the season.
Then Backlund and whoever is left out of Hanafin/Lindholm closer to or at the trade deadline and just hope to god neither suffers a major injury.
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