We are going to get Tanev.
He will try to use us as leverage to get more term somewhere else, but no one will bite.
Winning this year is very important, and he fills a primary need. We will offer him more term without caring about what the third year or whatever will look like because we are desperate to turn things around in the short term and there aren't a lot of options.
Even via trade, we don't have a lot of assets to work with.
Tanev is a good short term solution.
I'd love to get a longer term solution like Pesce but if we do end up with Tanev I'm happy.
Sanderson-Tanev
Chabot-Zub
Kleven-Brannstrom/JBD
That seems like a pretty competitive backend (assuming we trade Chychrun to round our other spots). I'm not sold Brannstrom will be back, but we own his rights for now so I've included him.
I could see us going after a vet for the third to fill the role Hamonic was supposed to fill if we move on from Brannstrom
Up front, it sounds like they want someone to push Joseph down to the third line.
Tkachuk-Stu-Giroux
xxx-Pinto-Batherson
Greig-Norris-Joseph
Kelly-Kastelic-Katchouk
I'd like to get a wrecking ball for that 4th line, but I do think they played really well to finish the year, so I also like the idea of rewarding that.