What about Tyler Toffoli? Last year at 4.25. Devil's might be willing to sell as they are having a rough year, and we know he can play with our core. He's on pace for 60 pts.
Would need to be Kuz +______________ to make the money work.
A way around this would be for the NHL to change the length of time a Russian player drafted by the NHL has their rights retained by that team. The clock maybe starts once they are eligible to leave Russia. Then everyone only starts drafting Russians in the 2nd + round as you expect those players to take 2-4 years anyway.
Still sounds like a desperate and bad move if this turns out to be true.
I think Silovs will play a lot is Abby, but if a back up is needed for a home game it is such an easy call up, especially if Abby isn't playing that night. I imagine we will see that 2-4 times this year.