Boston and Columbus trades

I can’t see them moving Beecher. Make the 2nd a 1st and add a couple of decent prospects...sure. But Beecher, Studnicka, Urho, Frederic, Lauzon should not be moved.

Certainly a fair deal. But just not a good one for Boston. Gives them no cap relief which could cost them Krug, losing Beecher is costly, and adding yet another left shot wing has little value. They have plenty.

Boston is thin at center prospect wise and Krejci/Bergeron are not getting younger. Studnicka and Beecher are there only young C's with top 6 upside.

This could be a gamble worth taking for Columbus.
Staal is no spring chicken, but if nothing else he is durable, has a fairly tolerable cap hit and only for 1 more year.
His scoring is decent, but his faceoff numbers are just average.

$100 says that CBJ will blow the dust off of Dubinski for the playoffs and he will mysteriously "recover" from the wrist injury that has kept him out all year.
He is truly a faceoff specialist (but can't do much else at this point), especially important if we make the playoffs.

Columbus isn’t trading yet another 1st round pick... sorry but Staal isn’t worth us trading another 1st and not having a pick until the 4th round again.