Trade? Lol. They'll keep the band together for another run under the naivety that Leon loves Edmonton and would never actually leave. Until he does, and they get nothing but cap space out of it.
You can't write a blank cheque with the constraints those derps have walked themselves into. And if they could manage that pay-raise, how does that affect flexibility for a subsequent McDavid extension and the cap structure of the roster? Every hole would have to be filled with a league minimum player lol.
At best, they can feasibly keep one. But I don't think either guy would have interest in being there without the other. So they're likely as good as gone.
McDavid already signed his youth away to those losers. He's earned redemption elsewhere.
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