I'm really not a fan of acquiring any of these ~30 y/o centers at the cost of Sillinger.

Doesn’t leave enough room to sign our pending RFAs (Marchenko, Chinakhov, Johnson, Texier)

We don’t need a super expensive stop gap. Literally any middle 6 center works.
Only criteria.
Half Ppg or more
3 years or less on term
5 m or less on cap
Semi defensively responsible
Just someone to keep Jenner and Fantilli’s minutes lower and buy time to keep us competitive and give us flexibility to sign either short or long term deals with our core. (Johnson marchenko and Fantilli

So I am hearing Pageau for Peeke?

See I wouldn’t hate that at all.
Fits all of my criteria. It’s warmed up to me and helps that the isles need d and cbj need cs.

Not only that an expert at the faceoff like Jenner...everyone is focusing on Lindholm but since we got Fantilli now no need to pay up to 9mil for a 2C in 4 years.

Exactly. And that’s without acquisition cost.
The one guy I don’t want is dvorak. Don’t see him as a fit

(Guy that fits my own criteria)

I wholeheartedly second this. Fills a need, and they have identical term. Plus, the Isles free up cap space for when Sorokin needs a new deal next year and Romanov and Dobson are due raises the next.