Likely if Captain Returns

Girard is going to need to have a pretty good season to get that kind of return, especially since we are in a position of needing to dump cap. My main issue here is that I think we need to keep Annunen at all costs. Georgiev will likely price himself out of CO after 24-25 and I don't know that we have any better options than keeping Annunen and giving him a shot.

MTL decline, we have no use for Girard

i'm going to say it now so we can all start preparing for it. I think it might be byram moved in two years. if he breaks out like we all are hoping he does over the next 2 years you have to think his contract will be somewhere around 9mil. Can we really put 25 mil into 3 d while still filling out the rest of the roster to be competitive? i understand the negative side to girard that everyone loves to point out but he's been a reliable top 4 d man for us for the last 4 years and can eat minutes. plus the return for byram would be substantially more than we would get for sammy or manson.
I'd hate to see byram go but we might need to move him in two years to fill out the team. It's not like our d core gets that much weaker it's pretty much keeping sammy and manson(or another physical d man for 4 mil) and getting the haul for byram or keeping byram and getting what we can for girard and manson.
Obviously if landy doesn't come back that changes everything

You don't keep a bottom pairing D making $4.5M over a top 4 guy making $5M; the return isn't what's important, it's the cap space: trade Manson.

Are there rumours of Landeskog coming back?

I didnt think we would see him again.