23 TDL

Avs decline. Drouin has negative value with his cap hit.

Pretty bad deals for every team not named MTL.

Armia and that contract and his production the last 2 yrs is a negative asset.
Drouin has 5 pts in 16 games and looks like hes dogging it every shift.
Dandanov is not producing
Comtois is worth more than negative asset Armia, and that stuff
And as much as I liked Savard, he doesn;t get a 1st in trade, still solid, but older and under contract for a few more years.

But really what are you adding by these lopsided deals? An underachiving Kraut and Pulijarvi, both expiring RFAs that will cost more for less certainty? Old man Strahlman? I know MTL needs to move some of these expiring and old guys like hoffman, armia, drouin, dandanov, but the way they're playing and with their current cap hits, they have little value.

I think if anyone offered a 3rd rounder for any of those guys, MTL would have to jump at it, but at this point I think they'll only offer a 3rd with MTL retaining.

Pens would say yes if they had the cap space.

-Personally I think Dadonov is dogmeat this year, but I know Pens fans are ready to move on from Kapanen. Make the salary work and I think you'd have a deal.

-There is nothing in this deal that gets back Max Comtois. Armia is a cap dump, Schueneman is a random depth guy, and a couple mid round picks don't even cover the cost of dumping Armia's remaining 3x$3.4M on the Ducks, much less offer the value that they'd want in a Comtois trade.

-Speaking of dogmeat - Drouin has 5 points in 16 games. Kaut might not be the prospect he once was, but if I'm Colorado, I'm gonna stick with the 23 year old with RFA rights over the pending UFA that eats up what little cap space I have left.

-Pezzetta is 13th forward. I could see a team maybe falling in love with his "grit" and trying to acquire him, but LA has more forwards than they know what to do with already - Pezzetta would be 18th or 19th on their depth chart.

-I don't know if Edmonton has the cap space to take back both those guys. I think there's a potential deal to be worked around Puljujarvi+ for Edmundson, but I don't think it'll be a 1st coming back with Eddy at his full cap hit.

-If Pittsburgh could've had a 4th for Kapanen by this point, I have to assume the deal would've been done. I think if you're swapping him for Dadonov, the deal that makes more sense is letting him play out the season this year and trying to move him as a rental, either over the summer or at next year's deadline when you can retain him down to a $1.6M cap hit.

-This deal makes zero sense for Boston. Not only do they definitively not have the cap to add Savard's $3.5M cap hit, he also makes no sense for a team that's currently running out an RD depth chart of Charlie McAvoy - Brandon Carlo - Connor Clifton. Clifton has been surprisingly effective on his $1M salary, so why would Boston give up a 1st rounder to get a more expensive RD3? It doesn't make sense to me.

Take Comtois out and we probably don’t accept