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3mil for lyubushkin feels like a lot, he’s only a 3rd pair guy on talent (consistently the Leafs’s least played D by a significant margin vs. the lightning even below Holl), I definitely wouldn’t give him any term, and probably closer to 1-1.5mil. He might be a solid 3rd pair complement to Brannstrom though (probably better than hamonic)
love the forward group, and we get to keep 7oa to bring in a guy like gauthier, kemell, or savoie, plus the edmonton first can be used to grab a RD to develop in case thomson doesn’t work out (guys like chesley, casey, salomonsson, lamoreux, rinzel look like probably 2-4 of them should be available). the only thing is that i’d maybe target nichushkin over burakovsky, he can take on a big role on our PK and has the size and willingness to dig pucks out for stutzle and create space (especially if we bring in a small, skilled guy like garland, i know burakovsky is pretty big, but i think nichushkin uses his size better)