They may sign both because they don’t have any better options, but then they are basically bringing back the same group. They’ve got 13.3 million. Take 900k off for Raty, and 1 million for your Forbort replace, and you are down to 11.4 million. And I am not even sure if that’s enough to re-sign both Suter and Boeser for. And you’ve lost Forbort so your PK/blueline is going to take a hit unless one of the young guys can pick up the slack.
A Demko trade could open up some cap space, but frankly, he’s not worth a ton, and 5 million in cap space isn’t going to go far this summer.
The reality is this team is probably going to just continue to struggle to score.