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Not touching Johnsson's contract. His advanced stats away from Matthews are terrible and next to Matthews on pace for only 15 goals, not saying a lot and there are cheaper wingers out there that will produce better results. Additionally, Johnsson is also coming off of a big season ending knee surgery, not easy to come back and hard to know if he'll be the same. Suffice to say, you aren't getting a 2nd a prospect for Johnsson and will have a hard time getting a 3rd for him without retention. Nonetheless, the Hawks aren't interesting in him in the least bit with that $3.4M cap hit. Retain 1/2 and we consider.