To start, Florida isn't loosing both Reinhart and Montour, by loosing one they can afford to pay the other.

Secondly, we had Montour for years, he didn't work out then, or in Buffalo, he had a single freak season in Florida, and now appears like a regular 3/4 guy again, he's not what we need, we need a mentor for Mintyukov. We should be looking at Peace or Roy, and use money to get a shorter AAV.

Reinhart is a great target, but I wouldn't expect him to ever repeat this season, and I wonder if he'd take that, given the tax differences here to FLA are a huge savings.

To answer the question, 22-26th overall, the defense would still be an issue, we'd still allow too many goals against. We really need another defense first D for Mintyukov, if that means keeping Luneau and Leshunov in SD for a couple seasons then so be it.

Wonder if we could throw like 8 million + at one of those two for 2 years — that would be more ideal imo

It would probably be more like 3-4, but it could work.