Habs 2023-24

so someone that we just grabbed off waivers and a complete cap dump is going to net us Barrie?

Why pay to dump Hoffman when his buyout is 1.6 mil for 2 years?

We have Wideman who is just a cheaper version of Barrie and only had 14 points less than Barrie last season. Barrie makes no sense to trade for.

Forget Barrie, useless.

if you win the Bedard sweepstakes, you need a goalie and a proper RD.

Throw some money at Jarry in FA, and throw some money at one or two of Dumba/Serverson/Klingberg/Sanheim

Can't waste the young guys, or get them discouraged.

-Hoffman's deal is backloaded - it's a $4.5M AAV but this year & next year, he's paid $5M. Arizona usually doesn't take on a cap dump where they pay out more than the cap hit they're getting, so you're going to have to pay up to get them to take it. Probably throw them that 2025 1st you got from Calgary. Since you have the cap space to just carry Hoffman's deal, though, there's zero need to dump him off right now. Just keep him and your prospects & picks.

-What is Edmonton getting out of this? Armia is an overpaid bottom-6 player with 3x$3.4M left on his deal; Kovacevic is a 25 year old RD with 4 NHL games to his name. He might turn into something but is past the age where that normally happens. No reason for Edmonton to accept this package if they wanted to move Barrie; and beyond that, if this is 2023-24, why not just sign one of the several strong RHD talents that will be available in UFA? John Klingberg, Matt Dumba, & Damon Severson are headlining a pretty strong free agent crop at that position, just go for one of them.

-I can't see Joel Edmundson being a target for the Panthers - he's going to be 30 by the beginning of 23-24, and coming off his second straight season where he missed significant time with an injury. They've got 14 players under contract with only $10M in cap space - dropping a third of that on a guy with that kind of injury history isn't really a smart move when they could just sign a guy like Dmitry Kulikov or Olli Maata to play that role for a similar or lesser hit and hang on to their assets.

Barrie is a cap dump.