Improving Defense

-Clutterbuck trade: Islanders flip a coin and either A) accept or B) counter with Clutterbuck fully retained for just a 3rd, and find their own Nosek somewhere else in the org. Cap implications are identical.

-Mayfield trade: Substitue Mason Lohrei for Vaakanainen, take out the 4th, call it in. Mayfield with his low cap hit, extra year of term, and top 4 ability shown this season should be worth a 1st or a 2nd & a prospect. Honestly, I don't think he's a good fit for Boston, since McAvoy & Carlo have RD1/RD2 locked in. I said it in another Bruins ACGM, if I'm Don Sweeney I maybe just throw a mid-round pick at Philly for Justin Braun (or to another team for another similar pending UFA). The cost the Islanders are going to want to get for Mayfield and the cost that the Bruins are going to want to pay to upgrade RD3 are most likely not going to line up.

Given how vaakanainen was playing before injury, I’m not sure this is an improvement.

Urho is a poor man’s Grzelcyk, yes he was playing well, but he’s a failed 1st round pick who doesn’t play tough. And is injury prone on top of that

I don’t think getting a concussion on a dirty hit qualifies him as injury prone.

He just turned 23, what he is is undetermined. This makes the team worse in my opinion.

This is head injury #3 at only 23 years old