Btw I do find it extremely peculiar that the Nichushkin buyout happened right in line with the news of Tampa being Pavelski's #1 choice.
That doesn't guarantee anything about Pavs, we could have very well bought Nuke in preparation of signing Pavs so that we have room for our RFA's etc.
I don't think that's the case though. I think Nill is making more room for either a Kessel type trade or to do what Satan is saying and load up on cheap secondary.
Especially because we know that Hanzal is going on LTIR which gives them the padding they want for the season.