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Originally Posted by Enoch Root

Trading for Laine would have to include salary, as would the proposal from almost every team.

Frolik (for salary, and he's only 1 yr, so it is palatable)
Hamonic (Jets need D if Buff is done, well, even if he isn't)
1st, 2nd

That is $8.157 in cap space

Gaudreau - Monahan - Tkachuk
Bennett - Lindholm - Laine
Dube - Backlund - Jankowski/Czarnik
Mangiapane - Ryan - Lucic

LW: Bennett, Dube and Mangiapane are pretty interchangeable with those lines, just go with whichever combos work.

Jankowski doesn't fit, but you can look to trade him for a decent two-way RW (lots of teams could use help at C). Then you have 4 really solid lines. The biggest problem is on D, it would be REALLY thin until Valimaki gets back.

Giving Tkachuk and Laine $8M each would give this lineup a cap of $80.8M (with Valimaki on LTIR)

I know that the Jets wouldn't go for that, but I couldn't come up with anything else that made sense for the Flames.

Laine has to be on the 1st line. He was complaining only a few days ago about being on the 2nd line. He said he could do better if he played with 1st line talent and only in Winnipeg is he on the 2nd line.