Slightly more realistic habs offseason

Not very realistic, since the wild are gonna get better offers

I like most deals for MTL, but I think it's wishful thinking that any team takes on Armia's full cap until he gets back to his Stanley Cup run form. Pretty much the only stretch in his career that he was worth $3.4M.

I also think Minnesota would be looking for at least one good, established & cheap NHLer and they probably only deal one of Dumba/Fiala.

Edit: Just saw the description - Dumba is no negative value, teams would line up for a top 4 RHD if he's made available regardless of Minnesota's cap situation.

In what world does a top 4 rd have negative value

Major overpay for jeff Petry.

That doesn't get Fiala and Dumba, And Fiala isn't signing for anything less than $7,500,000 x 8 years to $8,000,000 x 8 years

Weber is done, You wont get more than a 5th round pick for him.

We'll save the best part here for last...

-Seattle doesn't need a 32 year old RW who didn't score goals last season. You gotta do better than a 4th to get them to eat 2x$4.5M - the Coyotes got two 2nds to eat 2 years of Andrew Ladd's $5.5M, and he was only slated to get paid a $4M salary those years - Hoffman is actually paid more than his cap hit for 2022-23/23-24. Gotta start with a pair of 2nds to get the Kraken to bite.

-Petry makes sense for Dallas if Klingberg leaves, but not at that price. Take out the pick and Khudobin's contract (rumor has it he's LTIRetiring, which means his deal has *some* value to a cap team) and you might have something going.

-No one is giving up anything of value for 3X$3.4M left on Joel Armia's deal. You're stuck with him unless you staple a 2nd rounder or a prospect to his back.

-I can't see Edmonton making this deal, if only because they already have Mike Smith & Stuart Skinner as their goalies next year, and they have to keep Skinner at the NHL level or risk losing him through waivers. I think they might do this deal if you took Mike Smith back and kept it at 2 goalies for them - which I think lets you downgrade that 2nd rounder to a 3rd/4th and have the deal make more sense. I still think they get a better offer for Pool Party, though.

-Probably fair value for that Weber deal? Arizona loves a deal where they get a deal on cap hit.

-Lastly, in no world does Dumba have negative value. He's a bonafide top 4, on an expiring deal, with a manageable(to most) cap hit of $6M. Yeah, Guerin has to move cap, but he could just as easily offload depth guys like Tyson Jost & Dmitry Kulikov to get that space for dumping Dumba for nothing. This deal is probably too weak to get you Fiala, much less have Dumba added in.