Again you may be right but we again have to burn through draft capital to acquire said players. Pietrangelo costs us nothing but the cap hit he will command Dictate moving a large contract.
Not sure where you are getting your calculations from but if we add Manson and Savard that’s just over 8 million. We need to still resign Mikheyev, Dermott if we don’t trade him and A 4th line RW/LW. It’s not as simple as you suggest. Obviously it doesn’t meanany of the big 4 are gonna but AJ or Kerfoot are likely gone.
Personally if we can trade Nylander for Pesce, great RHD who is in mid twenties and plays solid D I take that deal all day. The roughly 2.9 million in additional cap space can be used on a reclamation project like Anderson or a player like Virtanen who has fallen out of favor/cap casualty.
Depth pieces, no matter how good they are can always be replaced, that's what makes them depth pieces they are ALWAYS replaceable.
Core pieces are much harder to replace.
What I'm saying is if bringing in Manson and Savard costs you Kerfoot and Johnsson it is what it is.
A team with a top 6 as good as Toronto's
With a top 4 of
Savard Rielly
Manson and Muzzin
With Freddy and Campbell in net.
That can win a title and that's the goal and if it costs you Kerfoot and Johnsson that's fine .
And yes, if you can get to the finals with Khudobin you can win with Freddy