Rejoint: nov. 2016
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Rangers fan here.
Obviously it would be great to re-sign Smith, but I think you're very short on his cap hit. Maybe $4m would do it, but on the open market, I wouldn't be surprised if he went for more. Same with Shatty. Maybe just a little bit higher on Zibenajad as well.
I'm strongly opposed to dumping Holden, even for a 2nd rounder. He had 34 points this year and a good+/-. Yes, he's one of their weakest defenders, and Vigneault shouldn't have had him on the ice at the end of Game 2 vs MTL, but still. And he has such a low cap hit. If you're going to win, you can't have Clendining in the starting lineup, even on the bottom pair.
Finally, I think the cap will rise to $75m or so; Nash clearly isn't worth $7.8 and he'd still be hard to fit, but I think we could do better than Marchessault in exchange.