HockeyGM33
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Actually, I can envision trading Brent Burns and here's why: If you go back to last summer, Doug tried to sign Tavares to a $13mm contract to become the new, younger #1 Center we need. Had he been successful, there would not have been an EK65 on the roster since the cap space would have been taken up. You would have had Tavares as a 1C and Burns as a 1D....and either way, Pavs would have been gone because there was no room to sign him for this year, given all of the other contracts kicking in for 2019-20.
Now, envision an Offer Sheet for Marner at $10.56million for 5 years. No way Toronto can match that and if you look at 2020-21, they only have one D Man signed (Reilly). The Sharks make a hockey trade with Toronto by trading LeBanc and Burns for Austin Matthews and timothy Liljegren. Sharks now have their #1C and a #1D in EK65, both younger than Burns and Tavares so should be around for years. Toronto has Tavares, Marner and Burns instead of having Matthews and Tavares; and they have 2 D men signed for 2020-21