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Why chytil 4th line and Bowden 2nd also too much for soderberg. And leaf fans will probably say not enough but I think it’s pretty close to fair

I just changed Howden and Chytil. I had gotten their numbers mixed up.

Do you honestly think that Lundqvist is healthy but still retires and leaves $8.5million on the table?
Not likely

Correct. Either buy him out, and live with the fact that your team (apparently not this guys team, but you get what I'm saying), wasted 15 years of one of the top goalies of this generation,

or,

keep him, and live with the fact that your team (apparently not this guys team, but you get what I'm saying), wasted 15 years of one of the top goalies of this generation.

From things I've read and heard about him, he doesn't want to play anywhere else. It's possible the Rangers approach him and say "hey, we're gonna try to trade you and if we can't, we're gonna buy you out." Rather than play for someone else or have his career end with the Rangers paying him to go away, he simply retires and takes a job in the organization. OR he retires from the NHL and goes back to Sweden to play a year with his brother. I don't think it's totally out of the realm of possibility that he just calls it quits.