One Year Turnaround

Your premise that Vegas can take on cap dollars is wrong. They sit some 9 million over the cap and when Eichel comes back they need to shed dollars to meet cap limit. They can not do so without dumping cap and using picks and prospects to do so, can not see them taking on more cap.

Signing Lindholm makes no sense.

We already have Guhle harris norlinder romanov and edmundson for LD its not a position we need to be spending big money long term on especially when you havent even touched the center position.

This is a 22-23 season GM. Assuming Vegas let’s Smith and McNabb go and that they trade Dadonov, I could easily see them accepting that deal. It’s a downgrade from Smith, for sure, but the Knights can’t afford to resign him.

Didn’t mean to post that twice.

romanov and edmundson are depth defenders. harris and norlinder don't have the potential to get on lindholms level. harris is gone in a few months anyway. that leaves only guhle who is probably needs many years to get there if he ever does. if the habs are trying to make the playoffs again signing lindholm makes a lot of sense. that said i think it's a mistake not to gut the habs and do a full rebuild from the bottom up.