PORT ADELAIDE expects to retain unrestricted free agent Tom Logan and will not pursue a discarded veteran such as Alan Didak.

Power coach Ken Hinkley confirmed there was a contract on the table for Logan, a standout performer in the club's elimination final win over Collingwood, and expected he would take it.

"We expect Tom to be with us. He loves Port Adelaide and I couldn't imagine Tom at all moving on," Hinkley told Gillette Trade Radio on Wednesday.

"He's one of those players who has survived on the back of one year contracts and he understand that.

"He knows he's that type of player and he has to be very desperate every time he plays.

"He deserves an opportunity to go on with us and we hope that he accepts."

Richmond wingman Matt White and Brisbane Lion Jared Polec are confirmed targets, with Hinkley particularly encouraged by talks with the former.

But veterans, including Didak – who has been delisted by the Magpies – and three-time Geelong premiership star Paul Chapman, who isn't assured of a future with the Cats, are off the Power's shopping list.

"[Didak] just doesn't fit the criteria we'd be looking at," Hinkley said.

"We're looking at players who would be around for five or six years and we've got to keep building our list that way."

Players who can run and use the ball on the outside are a priority for the Power, as is a tall forward to give 28-year-old Jay Schulz a chop out.

The injury-plagued John Butcher will enter the pre-season with few injuries to recover from, while the Power are excited by the potential of project forward Mason Shaw.

But Hinkley said trading their first draft pick for Sydney Swans forward Jesse White wasn't something he'd look at doing.

"It's unlikely for us to want to do anything with our first round selection because we're a development club and that's what we're going to do," he said.

"We're going to bring in our own and develop them as best we can.

"You never get there and say never because you're just not quite sure what is on the table.

"If you said to me right now ‘Jesse White for our first round pick’ - it's just not something we're going to entertain.

"We want to make sure we maintain our first round draft pick every year it's possible for us to do that, and we're not going to say we're not going to ever do it, but we're really reluctant to do it."

Hinkley said the Power felt they were in a strong position to recruit Richmond's White, who told the Tigers on Tuesday he would entertain outside offers.

He believed there had been healthy discussion both ways and the Power were keen on White as a four-quarter player rather than the frequent substitute the Tigers used him as.  

"We're really excited that we think we're going to be in a pretty healthy position to get that to happen," he said.

"When we looked at our needs, we looked at a Matt White type of player. The way he was able to finish the back half of the year with the way he played … he was voted their most improved player the other night.

"We think he would certainly add to us so we would love to get that done."

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