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Mantha would be a good temporary top-liner until Kempe is healthy, at which point he would drop down to be Pierre-Luc DuBois' RW. But with Turcotte, DuBois, Mantha, Anderson-Dolan, Grundstrom, Lizotte, LaFerriere and Lewis, we have more than enough bodies to play in the bottom 6 without Aube-Kubel even if we were to trade Kaliyev.
I would trade the second for Mantha with 50% retention. He's the kind of rental that makes sense for our circumstances.