Coal Harbour

I think that return alone is actually better than Pittsburgh's top prospect core lol moreso commenting on that than the return itself but yeah:

POJ
Hallander
Puustinen
Poulin
Legare

That would be an easy no from the Avs.

Not only that but EJ blocks the hell out of that.

Why would Colorado decline this? This is a deal that puts them over the top for a guaranteed cup.

It doesn’t put them over the top it puts them in instant cap hell, pulverizes their prospect pool and makes it so they don’t have a 1st round pick until 3 yrs from now. The Avs aren’t a one year cup run team, doing that trade makes them that, just next yr if they did it they would have only $24M to sign a starting goalie, back up goalie 2 top 6 wingers, 2 bottom 6 wingers a 6 and 7th dman and have no means to fill most of that with internal prospects because the top 2 d prospects and the current best forward prospect and only 3 remotely close to being ready to take a full time large contribution. Then it is even worse the following year when MacK gets a monster deal, Byram gets a deal and they magically find some more depth guys. So yeah that’s a hard easy no.