Quoting: ArakinSkywalker
Sodes makes no sense, he's not an efficient skater and doesn't check enough to play 4th line. Bellmare is doing fine in the role right now, seems like wasting money on him and simmons. I also don't think it makes sense to bring in a player like palmeri when we're going to have to let one of our other players go unprotected. It would make more sense to go after someone after the expansion draft
SIgning Soderberg and Simmonds:
Soderberg and Simmonds may be a bit overpaid but who cares since we have enough cap space. 4th lines dont need to be made up of 3 checking forwards anymore, skill is taking over. I think Soderberg would be a good fit since Bednar is comfortable with him and everyone knows him already. He can play almost anywhere in the lineup to fill in for injuries too. After a long season and if the Avs go far in the post season its pretty much guaranteed that there will be injuries which would make room for Bellemare to step in. Its not a bad thing to spend extra cash to have more depth.
Trade for Palmieri:
We would already lose a good forward to seattle anyways. Assuming we protect 7/3/1 we have mackinnon, landeskog, kadri, and rantanen as locks, then we would lose one of: burakovsky, compher, donskoi, jost. I think All of those 4 players are pretty even in terms of value, but lets assume you rank them from 1-4.
Assuming we dont bring in Palmieri then we would be able to protect 1, 2, and 3, while
4 would likely be taken by Seattle.
With Palmieri we would be able to protect 1 and 2, while
3 would likely be taken by Seattle. The only difference is losing the player you ranked #3 vs the player you ranked #4 out of these players: Burakovsky, Compher, Donskoi, Jost. I dont think the difference between the 3rd best and 4th best on that list is very big, so its not really a problem to bring in a player like Palmieri. If we wait until after the expansion draft then we lose out on time in which we could be pushing for a cup. I would much rather load up now and get a longer cup window than not improve the team just to keep our current 7th best forward instead of our current 8th best forward
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