We have a trade to announce:
acquire
Brendan Perlini
Darcy Kuemper (850k retained by Coyotes, so at 1M cap hit)
Coyotes 2019 2nd round pick
from
in exchange for
Elias Lindholm
Scott Darling
"We are sad to see both of our guys go. We didn't want to give up Elias Lindholm as we felt like he is part of our young core, but with the addition of Duchene and Kucherov we needed to shred some salary and could lose a guy from our forward core. By doing this trade we got six million off salary off our cap. We also wanted to give Darling a fair chance which he would not get playing behind Holtby.
That said we're very happy to add Brendan Perlini to this team. We trust that if we give him extended look on the wing of Duchene and Kucherov he might be a 30 goal guy for us. He has been teasing that 20 goal mark and is about to become a top six forward. But I gotta say, I'm also pretty excited to see the addition of Kuemper to this team. His end of the season with Coyotes wasn't great but he also has good track record of being a solid back up goalie."
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