lee67

Team: 2020-21 Nashville Predators

Initial Creation Date: Aug. 13, 2020

Published: Aug. 13, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

I'm not sure how realistic my trades are. I realize that fans from both sides will be against any/all of them.

The Duchesne trade was in order to get rid of $8 million of cap space for a player in my opinion isn't living up to his contract. I wanted to get more players for that cap space. I always like Bennett for the reason that his game always elevates for the playoffs. Regular season is another story but I'm willing to go with him on the team. Mangiapane and Dube are slowly but surely becoming middle six forwards/wingers. The first round pick may be a bit too much am I would be willing to go a second or third to make this work.
As for Calgary, getting Duchesne will give them 3 strong centers for the next couple of years to make a stronger cup run.

With the Arizona deal, I took two players that really aren't part of the Coyotes future plans so that they can sign Hall long term. I feel very comfortable with Raanta and Stepan as a backup and a second line center. The team is only committed to one year each and I am hoping that they take the initiative to have solid seasons in a contract year.

The Buffalo trade was an exchange of bad contract with Nashville getting a little bit more because Turris (imo) is the best player of the group and may still be able to give the 2C that Buffalo seems to crave. With the two players I received, Hutton and Johansson, I immediately bought both of them out. I picked these two contracts because they were one year each. As for Rinne, if he doesn't agree to the trade, then I would take both goalies out and go with rest of the trade. I would then proceed to buy Rinne out. Some fans may not like that but it's needed.

As for my signings of Beaulieu and Shattenkirk, I signed them both because I think they should make a decent third pairing, they came cheap short term contracts and let the farm team develop the d-men a little further.

One of the reasons why I picked Nashville to GM is because I'm not a fan, nor do I hate, the team. I tried to look at the team as logically possible and take the first steps to make the them stronger.

Let me know what you think of this and what you would do differently. Thanks.

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