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Anderson is good for this team. Even if you don't think the value is there or are concerned about the latter years of his contract, the players and coaches want him there.
Paying $5.5M for ~20 goals per season isn't the worst thing. If you want to ditch some money/term, find a way to unload Armia and/or Gallagher that another team might be amenable to.
Even moving Dvorak makes more sense before Anderson. Don't buy what the naysayers on CF are selling. Anderson is not a cap dump and even if he was, we have no need/desire to move him.
Ignoring value, there's no reason to swap Anderson for Mantha, especially while sitting on $7M in cap space and up to an additional $8-9M opening up at the end of the season (or TDL).
There's no combinations of pending expenditures that is going to cost us up to $16M at the end of that season.