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Edmonton has zero reason to take Elvis. Even getting him half-retained ($2.7M) would be more expensive than just buying out Campbell ($1.1M next year) and letting someone like Rodrigue or Pickard back up Skinner at ~$900K ($2M total cost). The math kills that deal very quickly, I'm happy to let the idea go. We should be buying out Elvis as soon as the price to move him gets more expensive than a mid-round pick.
I don't hate the other trades, but moving Texier feels like a mistake (he's a great fit on the 3rd line IMO) and moving Laine for that little is a recipe to get burned. I'd get over it just to be done with the saga and move on, but I'm positive we'd get burned.
I'd be very happy with Darche and all those RFA/UFA signings, but I'm not even going to let myself pretend we're going to win the lottery. I just hope we can stick at 4OA and get one of Levshunov/Lindstrom/Catton.
If we did win the lottery, I'd run the lines like:
JG - Fantilli - Marchenko
Johnson - Celebrini - Chinakhov
Jenner - Sillinger - Nylander
Voronkov - Kuraly - Danforth