How about some speculation surrounding Dallas. They are facing a major cap crunch with Rantanen, Oerringer and Johnson's raises next year. They have about $5M to re-sign Duchene, Benn and Granlund. Word is that they (a) need to offload cap this summer, and make space for extensions for Robertson and Harley next summer.
-Dallas needs some cap relief. Matt Dumba ($3.75M) has one year left and could fit on our back end.
-They need some championship pedigree to push them to the next level (Coleman).
DAL gets:
-$3.75 cap relief (Dumba)
-Coleman (2 seasons, 50% retained at $2.45M)
-Sam Morton (cheap 4th line C, replaces Bourque short term)
-Soloyov, Kuznetsov or Poirier (cheap D man who has aged out of our system but could find a home on their bottom pair to replace Dumba)
CGY gets:
-Dumba
-Bourque
-unprotected 2027 1st
-Angus MacDonell
I'm still not convinced Bourque will be anything but a bottom-six centre, but this allows us to get another first, and build depth up the middle.
Thoughts?
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