Due to the market we saw get set this offseason, Hintz will see well north of $8M on his next contract. For an 8-year contract, it's very likely he pushes for $9M or more

Probably. This just if somehow they can get him to take 8. But absolutely his market value is 9M at least.

In this scenario, we don't bring back Gurianov.

I wonder if he will actually take a 1 year deal with a verbal agreement on the next contract. The cap is currently projected per CapFriendly to jump up to 87.5mil that year. He can really collect bank if he waits just one more year. Even better if he can take a two year contract... then, the cap is projected to be 92million, and Jamie Benn will expire. He can easily get 10million then. It will be interesting with the huge raise, what happens with this free agent class