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Id rather pay a bit of a higher price and get them to eat 25% of the contract. $8.7m is a lot more stomachable then that $11.6m imo. Yzerman should be doing what he can to upgrade this team now. We need to start pushing the chips in while Larkin/DeBrincat are in their prime Seider/Raymond are on discount contracts and Edvinsson/Kasper are on ELCs. Speaking on Edvinsson he should be extended this offseason. $8.5m x 8. Danielson/13th overall/other prospects/picks for any of Pettersson (retained), Peterka, Robertson, Byram, Miller, etc.

With this draft apparently being rather average at best our 13th overall pick might be worth packaging up to acquire a quality player from a rival who may be facing cap crunch.

I wouldn't pay much for Petey. I think the Canucks would part with him for next to nothing to get from under his contract. Compher + Ras + 2nd

Id sign an upgrade on D this summer - Gavrikov/Provorov and roll with what we have for 1 more season. Sign Connor and Andersson next offseason. By that time Tarasenko, Chiarot, Holl, Gustafsson, all the goalies and the Abdelkader buyout will be off the books and Danielson, MBN, Mazur, Buch?, Lambo? Finnie?, ASP, Wallinder, Buium?, Cossa should be on the team / banging on the door. Resign Kane for 1 more season and replace him with Connor next offseason. Trade/buyout Compher/Copp next offseason and replace with Danielson. Replace Tarasenko with MBN. Replace most of the bottom 6 with Mazur/Buch/Lambo/Finnie/free agents. Trade for/sign a Chiarot replacement. Replace Gus with ASP, Holl with Wallinder. Cossa should be ready to take on the starters role but a reliable backup will be needed via free agency - Stolarz/Brossoit. Connor-Larkin-Raymond Debrincat-Kasper-MBN Buch/Lambo-Danielson-Mazur Soderblom/Finnie-Copp-Ras Gavrikov/Provorov-Seider Edvinsson-Andersson AlJo/Wallinder/Buium-ASP Cossa Stolarz/Brossoit