He’s a great player. I just really hope we don’t. I don’t want to hamper efforts to lock up sillinger Johnson marchenko and jiricek if they pan out as we hope. If laine signs for longer than 5 years all of those players will be looking at decent money by then. Plus all of the others like Tex, china, etc. We are not in “go for it” Territory. We got Johnny. Quit while we are ahead in free agency.

Also kuraly at minimum has a full ntc is from Columbus. Not waiving it for anywhere. (I’m sure he would be tempted by avs tho)

Overall not a bad acgm, just my opinion that we shouldn’t be moving more money around just to buy in FA.

Thanks for the input. Yeah, I didn't think CBJ would be interested in Kadri considering his age and how much they'd have to shed to get him; the Jackets can afford to be a little patient since JG isn't terribly old. It's just been something that has been floated around and I wanted to see what it would look like.