As a Leafs fan I would love Jared Spurgeon, he’s underrated and can move the puck decently as well….although that contract will age horribly and we are over cap in this scenario, kampf wont be on LTIR so this would be a move only if say Marner or Tavares got moved and I just don’t see it happening unfortunately

I feel like youre better off just offering that big ass deal to a free agent and keeping the 1st lol.

Maybe instead of 1st trade Marner for Spurgeon and more

Nah. Most Wild fans seem pretty reluctant to give up anything of value for Spurgeon.

Debatable. Firstly, there isn't a single player in FA that is nearly as good as Spurgeon. I also think that the fact he only has 3 years left is a major benefit. Any contract that's given in FA will have to have a good amount of term, too.

I just placed Kampf in LTIR because I think his cap is easy to dump, and he's a pretty obvious candidate to be replaced with Minten coming in. I just don't want a bunch of Ducks fans yelling at me in the comments about why they wouldn't give up a 26' 7th for him or something like that. If the cap is what you're worried about in this scenario, I think it's easily solved by trading Lilly and/or signing a cheaper D-man than Tanev. Either way, very doable.

I also don't think the contract will age horribly. Obviously, we'd have to see how the injury would affect his play, but I'm definitely not too worried about his age. Many elite D-men have shown it's possible to stay at that level. It's also only 3 years. Even if he gives us 2 years of elite play, that's a win.

Idk, he's 34 and had a season ending hip injury lol. I think Roy, Pesce, Montour etc all would cost less money and not require any picks while also being younger.

While I would certainly demand more, but secretly I would consider another team taking Spurgeon’s contract as compensation enough.

What does this even mean? I’d trade Spurgeon for one year of Marner.

realistically, you're prob right. just messing around with this idea.

Meant "for Marner", but I can't envision Wild fans would want to give up Rossi and a 1st in addition to Spurgeon, which is what Toronto would (at least) want.

Yeah, there’s no shot on those pieces. They don’t make sense to trade for Marner.

Exactly

I mean, Spurgeon only played for 16 games this season and we all know how the Wild turned out. Spurge is important to us. And if the mantra is to "win now", the Wild would need something that could help us now back. Like Knies.