No money next season to re-sign Suzuki, Romanov, and Hertl.

Nobody is taking Mailloux off your hands, hes your problem now. You're also kinda done for when your RFAs agents come calling

It depends on how much they want. I'll have to let Chiarot walk and give 2.5 -3 mill to Hertl almost guarantee. Same time hope that either Harris, Struble or Guhle are ready to play LD. Then cross my fingers that Suzuki is willing to take a 3.5- 4 mill 2 yr bridge. But gotta get rid of Byron in order to pull that off. And probably won't bring back Lehkonen and his 2.3 mill cap hit and give some of that to Romanov. Also if Primeau is ready I could potentially trade Allen to free up some cap. And Alzner's cap retention goes down by 1 million. Gotta do some cap gymnastics but if there's a will there's a way.

I'll keep Mailloux if they don't want him. I have other assets to give if needed.

Sharks aren't moving Hertl until out of the playoff picture. It's very likely that MTL is not one of the three teams on his trade list as well.

Mailloux = instant decline for me

Just because he has that in his clause doesn't mean there's not more teams he's willing to go to. If COL, TB, VGK are on his list doesn't mean he'll shut down a trade to PIT, NYI, NYR, CAR etc. Ya it's very possible that SJ thinks they have a shot at playoffs and keep him.

Ok I'll give you a 2023 1st. Or a condition that you'll get whichever of the 2022 1st rnd picks that ARZ doesn't choose.