The thing about the canes letting them walk for nothing is that they're a legit contender.
They're not going to trade 2/4 of their top 4 dman before playoffs to another playoff team to use as rentals. They were their rentals in a way.
Then since they're UFAs they just replaced them with better value UFAs.
As the flames inch closer to the finish line in a playoff spot, I've come around to not trading him this year.
But we should recoup assets in the summer if he's not willing to sign a very team friendly deal.
Try to target a better value UFA.
Sign someone like Marcus petterson to a 4 year deal. It would work as a better stop gap then Andersson for 8 years.
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