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Loyal Habs Fan
Who would you like to see Bergevin target via an offer sheet:
a) Mathew Barzal, C, NYI
b) Ryan Strome, C, NYR
c) Anthoney DeAngelo, RD, NYR
d) Sam Reinhart, C, BUF
e) Pierre-Luc Dubois, LW, CLB
f) Andre Burakovsky, LW, COL
g) Anthony Cirelli, C, TBL
h) Mikhail Sergachev, LD, TBL
i) Anthony Mantha, RW, Det
j) Other (i.e.: Gaudette, Kunin, Roslovic, Bertuzzi, Virtanen, DeBrusk, Lebanc, Terry, Brown, Pulock, Graves, Dunn, Georgiev)
k) None
Sergachev or Dunn are the only realistic options in terms of cap crunching the other team real bad and addressing the Habs needs. Cirelli is a real threat to sign a offer sheet as well. But in both Sergachev and Cirelli's case, you better offer a lot cause you need to offset the taxes between Montreal and Tampa... otherwise, they won't sign it. So Dunn might be the best probability. But if you are going to pry him away, will less than $4.2M do it? Doubt that. Then you get to the $4.2M - $6.3M range and that will cost 1st, 2nd, 3rd. Why not just trade for Leddy with $1.5M retention and give them a 2nd and two 4th's? Chiarot and Leddy would be a good bridge to Romanov, Harris, Norlinder, Struble.
- Islanders and Blue Jackets will keep Barzal and PLD.
- Strome, DeAngelo, Reinhart, Burakovsky, Mantha won't work unless you overpay in get real desperate. I don't see that happening.