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Nik the Trik said:louisstamos said:Zee said:Jolly good show chaps said:Morning chaps. Earlier in the summer I was reading a fair few comments from people saying it wouldn't be difficult finding a taker for Lilles with a decent return. Is trading him and re-signing Franson still a possible a solution or do we ideally want to keep both?
You have to find a willing trade partner to take Liles. Easy to say "trade him" but is there a team that wants him and will take on his $3.8M salary?
Probably not - but would someone be willing to take him at $1.9 or $2.0 if we retain part of his cap hit? That is a bit more appealing...
I still don't see why that would be necessary. Liles is a really good offensive defenseman who's had a bad run of injuries/being on a team where there are other good offensive defensemen competing for PP time. Liles has a body of work beyond last year.
But that's true of several players we can think of who were bought out, are on tryouts, or in Europe.