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1. Yes he should move to right wing but the coaches won't do it. They see him as the future 1C of this team
2. I'll answer the contracts question based on the assumptions we don't trade any of those guys. Toews probably looks like 5 mil x 3 and Kane like 8.5 x 3 if they sign unique contracts, but I could see them signing identical ones again (maybe like 6.5 x 3 each). Kubalik at this point should only get his QO in my opinion. Debrincat Probably in the 8-9 mil range on the full 8 years. The hawks will have to move out money to do all this, probably by a Connely buyout and Johnson trade.
3. All those guys should be staying in the AHL imo. Reichel is ready for the NHL but should still stay down till next year. Hawks have a history of rushing guys to the NHL just to watch them dissapoint and then trade them for pennies on the dollar two years later (think Teravinen or Boqvist). I don't want this to be repeated.
4. Murphy and Mccabe were both just signed or extended, and I would expect them to be here for the forseable future.
5. Full tank should not mean trading Debrincat. I think the hawks believe they have most of their next core in Debrincat, Jones, Dach, and the way Reichel has looked I would even throw his name in to this conversation. I would expect the hawks to move forward building around those guys. Things become a lot easier if we can land one of Wright/Michkov/Bedard but I don't expect us to ever be bad enough for that to happen.