I don’t want Driedger. We need a proven starter, not one that may be good, or may be bad. Montour isn’t bad, but a good left handed defence man is what we should target, but I wouldn’t be mad if we got him. Gusev is meh. He was on 2 teams in the span on 1 year. He hasn’t been as good as he was when he was a rookie. I’m not confident that he will be a good player for us. Duclair is actually okay, but if we can, I would stick him with McLeod on the third, and get a better winger to play with McDavid. That’s just what I think… it’s an interesting idea!

Why wouldn't we just... re-sign duclair? We are trying to compete

I think that's still the likely scenario. This would be just if he's available b/c he's being difficult in contract negotiations again.

A lot of cap space left if you aren't going to use it you should just bury instead of buyout contracts.