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Now that’s interesting.
Abramov is in tough to ever make this team. Balcers just passed him, and Paul is ahead of him on the left side. On the right there’s CBrown and Batherson. I’ll mention Tkachuk and Dadonov, just in case. Abramov is not likely to be a 4th line player. Howden would be battling Anisimov for the 4th line centre job, and moving forward would be an asset that either keeps a spot and forces another player to be traded, or is moved again. His value is more than Abramov, hence the added Smith.
Since Smith has only 1 year remaining, and is only making $2.35MM, I do this deal.