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Benning doesn't add much to our system, and Boqvist could be had for the 2026 2nd in all likelihood.
We don't have room in the AHL for Knight with Greaves being the starter, and there's no way ownership wavies Tarasov or sends down someone making $4.5M. If we're adding Knight it's to make him the NHL backup, with a path to be the starter, so Tarasov would have to go either concurrently or in this deal.
That much retention costs you at least a 3rd per year (so, the other picks), so it's basically Laine for Sourdif and a long shot to be an NHL backup now/starter in the future? We'd rather just keep Laine and hope for a bounceback, thanks.