Coulda Shoulda

How would we be any further ahead right now? Brady is likely sitting out the beginning of the season holding out for more money. He was supposedly offered 8 x 8 and still has not signed and his dad and brother are getting involved with the negotiations. For me this is worse than KK leaving via a ridiculous OS, Brady clearly puts himself before the team, 8 x 8 is an overpayment yet he still wants more money.

This team is weaker than before

Whaaaat? For the life of me, I'll never understand folks that equate the amount that a player is being paid to whether a player is selfish. How are we going to sit here and say that Brady puts himself before the team, when the owner of that team has pinched pennies for the entire time he's owned the organization?

Galchenyuk at 2C

You do have a good point there! Nobody will argue Brady isn't bringing more to his team than KK right now but would you rather have Brady and a Kole Sherwood or Tyler Toffoli and Mike Hoffman for roughly the same cap hit? They aren't bringing the same skillset to the table, it's just to show how much money Brady's looking to get.

OP:
If we keep playing the "If" game then it's pretty sure that Toffoli isn't with us as Berge would've went to FA with a top 6 center as his mindset, not scoring wingers. That year was pretty bad with pretty much only Craig Smith and Granlund being middle six options so a trade would've been much more likely (Year prior was the Duchene year and he didn't want to join us so..).