Burnt Biscuits
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Wasn't that one of the main benefits of bringing Josh Brown in?Absolutely no to trading Kane. If he is healthy and ready to play, you 100% keep him. They added smaller players in Skinner and Arvidson, now people want the only tough forward gone in Kane.
Can you imagine Kane playing against us? No one would touch him.
I'll also say Kane and Skinner skew towards being one-dimensional goal scoring forwards, you rarely want 2 of those one one team if you are trying to win a Cup and I don't believe big and physical is worth the $2.125M premium. In my eyes we should ideally be pocketing the cap savings from essentially swapping Kane and J. Skinner to address other areas of need, much like with Broberg replacing one of Kulak/Ceci.
Then we can further mitigate lost toughness/grit through other additions such as our 2nd pairing RHD and probably also a bit through our 4th line. Also Holloway was hitting a ton in the playoffs and presumably will grow to take a bigger and bigger role with the team in time, he'd also supplement some of what we'd lose in Kane.