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I don't hate this idea, but I don't like it either. Bennett is almost certainly worth more to us as a team than he is as a trade piece. And Mangi is really starting to step up, even as a left shot RW (whether it's because he's playing with Backs and Tkachuk, or if he's just actually coming into his own is a different story. But regardless, he's the best fit we have for that line). You'd almost have to see whether Janko+Young player (Dube/Ruzicka/etc..) could get us a better support piece instead.
Agreed. But something similar can be said about Risto about being more valuable to Buffalo than many other teams.
Bennett and Mangiapane are good players, but the reason I tossed those names in there is because they have a physicality and tenacity to their game that could allow Buffalo to value them similarly to how we value them, plus we have a LW logjam.
Yes, I get that Risto is flawed as hell, but we're technically seeing if we could move similarly flawed players from a position of strength and swap them into an area of weakness just like Buffalo is doing with RD for forwards.