The inevitable

If a 2nd got rid of one year of Staal wouldn't a 1st be enough for two years of Boychuk?

If you really want, sign Greene for 960K or Barzy for $8 700 000

At that price, we better get Barzal for longer than 3 years. Imo a bridge deal should be no more than like $8 million, anything more should be at least 5 years, even if it does walk him to UFA.

So maybe you shave a little off his deal and then use it to sign Martin or some other bottom 6 guy and play them over Bardreau. I loved him in his call up, but he is a career AHLer. I think giving him 3rd line duties right of the bat could be risky. Worse case scenario, I say you just play Leo at 3LW and get replacement level value out of him until the TDL when you can find ways to make upgrades

I feel like if a first could move Boychuk it would've been done, but to be safe I added Bellows. Wish we knew more than we did rumor wise

If we could do 7x9 for barzy I would lock it up now. But I can't see him at 7 and he's worth 9. For this I did slight overpayments for worse cases, which seem like the realistic cases at this point.

That 3rd line LW I think all depends on camp. Lou and Barry don't like rushing younger guys but without cap we're either going to put a young guy next to pageau or a guy who has no offensive capabilities. They pick their poison on that one. Personally I can see Leo starting but I would want to put someone with some potential scoring touch until the TDL for a better upgrade than both