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Edmonton declines. Your take is rather charitable, too: "Edmonton get's a veteran center who can play in the bottom 6 and win faceoffs." Let's break it down:
"a veteran center" - Sutter will be 32 years old at the deadline and have played about 750 NHL games. Check.
"who can play in the bottom 6" - over the past 2+ seasons Sutter carries a 40.00 GF% and a 42.47 xGF% while playing 11:35 per game at 5v5. Those are certainly bottom-6 numbers - and none of them are good. Check.
"and win faceoffs" - Over the past 2+ seasons he's gone from 17.8 faceoffs/game to 8.6 to 4.0 this year - seems his coaches have little confidence in his faceoff abilities. However, he has won 416 faceoffs in 856 tries in that timeframe for a 48.6% win rate. Check.
Jokes aside, he sucks and he's overpaid. Nobody is giving you a 4th for him - even with 50% retained.