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If he's retained it means we probably ship out another big ticket forward, probably Boeser. It's not realistic to keep the gang together going forward. 

Boeser's a pending RFA, Bo's a UFA the same offseason as Miller, Pettersson will eventually need a new deal, Hogs and Podz will get raises, we'll need to replace Hamonic and that'll cost more than 3M, we may have to pay a tad more to replace Myers once his deal expires. We still need a legit 3c, and on and on. A team can only allocate so much to their top six. 

Perhaps a time to acquire some big LTIR contracts?!?

@Coconuts I agree, barring we go the LTIR route, teams tend to trade expensive support players and I think we'll ultimately have to go all-in with the core and add peripheral guys (luckily that's JR's specialty).

Build around Demko, Hughes, Petey, Garland, Hog/ Pod, OEL (no way we can move him) and one of Miller/ Bo.  Guys like Pearson/ Dickinson/ Poolman/ Hamonic/ Myers/ Motte and probably Boeser will eventually need to be shipped off to recoup value.