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Yes only three retention spots, and yours are almost all long term....
Who knows what Price comes back from LTIR? Last season he was pretty meh until the playoffs. Theres little chance he plays out that contract, and even with 3.5mil retained, do you think EDM has that money going forward?
Gallagher is getting paid for the player hes been. His "game" does not promise long term investment and even now in MTL they are paying him 6.5mil as a 3rd liner. You will never get his value in trade.
As for Drouin, I cant see him getting his value back either. Hes a tough move, because of his 1 way game, but mainly because of his mercurial presence, sometimes hes there, sometimes hes not, read an article about MTL possibly benching him the other day (that also recognized hes one of their few performers).
Overall those are players MTL should move, I just dont think theres a huge market for those four bigger pieces (lehkonen as well), and I don;t think any are in high demand, partly due to the player and partly due to salary and partly due to the fact that alot of teams are capped out.