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Quick point - you can only retain on 3 contracts at a time, so one of these trades happens at full cost.
-I think Buffalo passes. Meier is young enough to be a building block, sure, but Quinn lines up with a lot of the Sabres' young core age-wise. I think they hang on to him and don't try and skip a step in the rebuild.
-Don't know if there's enough here for Philly? Couture & JVR probably offer similar levels of production at this point, with the big difference being Couture's insane amount of term left. Reimer is probably worth Sandstrom/Frost, but I can't see any reason for Cam York or the pick swap happening here to be included - and I don't see any good out of San Jose retaining $2.5M over the next 5 seasons. Couture's 29-team NTC probably blocks this one anyways.
-JVR fully retained gets this if he can play at his usual 25-goal pace.
-No need for the Islanders, really - Labanc is a middle-6 guy at best, and they have a glut of middle-6 wingers with heavy AAVs(Beauvillier, Palmieri, Bailey, Lee) so there's no room to add him. I'd think about this if a bad contract gets sent back with the picks but I just don't see a fit at all.