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Carolina isn’t adding here. Trouba at $8 mil is not in the same world as Pesce as a rental at $4 mil. Teuvo is worth more than Laf right now as well. Given Trouba’s NMC, we’d be better off just buying him out. Mission needs to be offloading Panarin, Trouba, Goodrow and Trocheck. Leave the core guys at Shesty, Mika, Kreider, Fox and Lindgren and the younger potential core of Chytil, Kakko, Laf, Miller and Schneider. We need to think long term and that is bridging the gap until Perrault, Othmann, Cuylle, Sykora, Berard, McConnell Baker, Korczak, Jones, Fortescue, Robertson and Garand are ready. By then our current set of young guys aged 21-24 will be 24-27 and ready to fight it out in the playoffs. Our current problem is the lack of guys aged 25-28 in the lineup, which we don’t have and won’t for a few years. Plus Igor by then would only be 30-31 which is still relatively young for a goalie. It’d give us a 3-5 year time before thinking of another retool/ rebuild. Only problem is everyone thinks we’re ready to win the cup now, I just don’t see it yet.