DaveMatthew
Bring in Peter
This is all fine and good to keep on repeat but there is a flat cap and no good teams have any room or cap space other than Carolina. Literally everyone is in cap hell. Supply and demand is a real thing right now. The sens are so lucky covid happened tbh. They got to lock up all their young guys at lower numbers and even Dorions blunders might work out for them because no one has any money.
There are lots of typically desirable markets that will have lots of flexibility this summer. Or could easily create flexibility.
Vegas, Nashville, Toronto, Chicago, Colorado, Carolina and Anaheim pop to mind.
Ottawa would still be in tough in the UFA market. Doesn't mean they can't sign a couple of guys, but if they want a Barbashev or Killorn, they'll have to pay a significant Ottawa tax.
Guys like Fast, Sheary, Rodrigues, Bjugstad, etc, are more likely.
Killorn grew up in Beaconsfield, from what I understand, so maybe he'd want to come be closer to home. But I can see Chicago throwing him a high AAV 3-year deal to ride shotgun with Bedard for a couple years. Him or O'Reilly.