Wingers under contract:
Huberdeau - 7 years
Sharangovich - 6 years
Coleman - 3 years
Kuzmenko - 1 year
Mantha - 1 year
Lomberg - 2 year
Pelletier - RFA
Pospisil - 2 years
Duehr - 1 years
Trade Coleman and Mantha.
I’d be willing to bet Kuzmenko has a better year than Kakko three of the next four seasons, at which point Kakko would be UFA anyway.
Assuming he demonstrates that he’s playable defensively in the early part of the year, keep Kuzmenko to pump up the guys on one-year contracts and add to the highlight reels. 3x$8M. They’d still be $20M below the cap, and Having three good wingers discourages them from drafting wingers with high picks.
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