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McKenzie on Panthers’ path forward
The Panarin thing is interesting too because he might think fondly - even though the Panthers are not a contending team right now - although they still have a really good nucleus of young players, including Barkov and others, that leads you to believe that they could be a contending team in the not-too-distant future.
“But the idea of making a seismic move in free agency to get Panarin and Bobrovsky - and I don’t know if they’ll get them or not - but there certainly appears to be a desire to do that.
“How do you reconcile that with - and that’s why we’ve heard some trade rumors involving Huberdeau and MIke Hoffman, because they are a budget team - not so much a cap team. And if you’re going to go big game hunting in free agency for guys like Panarin and Bobrovsky, who between the two of them might be close to $20 million a year - you’re probably going to have to end up having to offloading salary. I don’t think that’ll necessarily happen between now and the trade deadline, although I did hear some more Mike Hoffman rumors over the weekend about the possibility of him being moved before the deadline.