Can't imagine he gets another contract with the Kings. Assuming all goes as everyone is expecting, he'll be long gone by the time he turns 28. Even if he puts up 40 goals, you just have to sell high. Unless those 40 goals somehow keep the team in the playoff race, and then maybe you keep him to make the playoffs, but even then, maybe you deal him anyway. That's probably not likely, as there are very few GMs anywhere that would trade a guy producing like that on a team headed to the playoffs.
I think Blake has made his choice though. Not sure what Toffoli could do that would allow him to remain here beyond the end of this season. If he does have a good year, he'll be asking for more than the $4.8m in cash he's making, and of course you can't give him more. Plus he's the young guy for the old core, and he's not the bridge between the old core slowly retiring, and what we hope is the next wave of potential. He's not the veteran leader type. It started with Pearson, then Muzzin, and he has to be part of that next chipping away from 2012 and 2014. Slowly but surely, there's at least one guy from those days that will be gone every year(other than Doughty). It's just going to take a while.
