Phillips seems like a great buy low candidate for a team without (m)any inherent size issues...
FLA next year comes to mind...they'll have to run pretty lean as Barkov, Verhaege, and Yandle's BO will cost about 10.2M more than this year. Tippett and Luostarinen may be due modest raises, and Vatrano's 2.5M is the only money coming off the cap (that hasn't been LTIR all year like Nutivaara and Acciari).
Which is all to say they probably can't afford to keep Vatrano and could use a little cheap skill (presumably no more Thornton, either). They don't really have any small bodies to begin with.
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