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Originally Posted by butterfly
What have they done up to now to suggest that will be true?
If they haven't established themselves as gamebreakers, that's the time you can lock them up for cheap money. Waiting leads to having to pay them tons of money. It's what Treliving did with Lindholm and Hanifin; unfortunately we couldn't take advantage of those years that we had them as top line/top pairing for $4.xx MM. Duehr deal was another good AAV, should have doubled the term. The player is the perfect age and style of play for the 4th line, let them say no to 4 years x $950k-1MM.
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So if you're looking to spend whatever it takes to get rid of Huberdeau and Kadri, then you're banking on building your team around Pelletier and Coronato, and Zary? You're spending massive amounts of 1st round picks to move on from Huby and Kadri, so you've spent your most valuable asset (1st round picks) to acquire cap space...which you don't have internally developed players that are worth investing all of that cap space into.
This team needs its 1st round draft picks a hell of a lot more than they need cap space.