When you have a mandate to make the playoffs, and battling for top spot in the Pacific with 23 games to go, and the world is talking about a potential Vezina season from All-star Markstrom, with eight players in Pettersson, Miller, Horvat, Hughes, Pearson, Virtanen, Gaudette and Tanev having career years...
...yeah.
You go for it.
Next year’s first and second can be recovered in the summer. Or at least the second.