Is Pettersson not the most obvious Canuck come March??
100%… They can’t allow themselves to have both Hronek and Weegar on long term deals. That could end up scary, and not in a good way.
Yes i love Weegar but we wont have room for a contract like that without moving off Hronek who just signed and is dominant with Hughes at tilting the ice currently and younger
Going forward it doesn't make much sense either to block Willander who is a RD and should be top4 or bust and also the OEL cap hit is coming so they need to be careful with a big long term contract addition especially one that is 30yrs old.
Also Lekkerimaki Willander and EP2 should be untouchable (as well as Silovs with Demko's health concerns). Picks are a different story but Lekker for Weegar makes no sense.....Just turned 20 and was the best goal scorer in the SEL last year as a teenager and U20MVP. No Chance we trade that as he's about to help the big club
Ideally as you mentioned you get a 4-5 million dollar LD to replace Forbort but even that will be tight so they may have to find another value Soucy type or just dip into UFAs to be at the deadline ala Zadorov and then let them walk