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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
A complete tear down is almost impossible with the contracts we have.
He traded what he could get value for. Now we are stuck with Kadri and Huberdeau. Coleman probably has some value but I doubt he wants out.
We need to keep Weegar we still need to ice a lineup and comply with the salary floor.
Really only Mangiapane, Backlund and Andersson. Only Andersson has value.
I’m sure Markstrom is good as gone so not putting him on the list.
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That's about the size of it.
Kadri is probably tradeable with retention, but my God! Five years of dead cap space is not a problem you want to saddle yourself with. If (supposing the impossible) I were in Murray Edwards' shoes, and Conroy came to me asking permission to trade Kadri with maximum retention. I would say to him, very crisply and drily: ‘That is not a problem that I want your successor to have to deal with.’
Conroy may say he's not tearing down to the studs, but the studs are already showing in spots and there's not that much more tearing down to do. The real question is how he will go about building back up again.