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Just spit balling here without knowing who goes in the expansion draft.
-Parise and Liane $7.5m each ($15m)
-Zucc, Fiala, Kaprizov $6m each ($18m) - going with Fiala and Kaprizov being outstanding and pair accordingly.
-Suter, Spurgeon, Brodin ($21m)
-$13m in Rask, Greenway, Soucy, Strum, and goalies.
-So that leaves $14m to cover JEE's raise, 2 bottom pair d-men, 1 top-6 center, 1 bottom-6 center, 2 bottom-6 wings. if Kaprizov/Fiala take $4m bridge deals it adds $4m to that.
What does a top-6 center cost? $6m-$10m/yr. We've run out of trade chips with Dumba gone, so it's a UFA signing.
JEE gets a $3m bridge deal?
It would take guys on their ELC's and league min filling the rest of the roster and you're still at/over the cap.
The math doesn't work out to trade Dumba for a wing. The GM dumped 2 wings this offseason, and a 3rd during last season and the roster is still overfilled with wings.
All that comes to mind is the 13-14 Oilers but with a better defense. JEE=RNH, Laine = Hall, Fiala = Eberle, Kaprizov = Perron, Parise = Hemsky, and Zucc = Yak.