Tarasenko and Rico

Ha, good one. Funny stuff. Now where's the real offer?

You're not getting Rico with retention for pieces you don't want to hold onto and a third.

It'll take a 1st round pick or a 2nd and a blue chip prospect.

That offer doesn't get Henrique with retention. Blackwood is a cap dump we don't want. Bahl is an interesting guy, but the deepest part of the Ducks prospect pool is LHD so ultimately not that appealing. Clarke is pretty much just a throw in. The pick isn't good enough. It all comes together as a bunch of quantity but no real quality.

Keep in mind that the Ducks are more than willing to keep Henrique. You are needing to make the kind of offer that we can't say no to that contains some combination of high picks or quality prospects.

Henrique is great, but he isn’t the kind of guy a blue chip prospect is moved for. I don’t think this offer here would be enough either, but blue chip prospects just aren’t moved like that

If we can't get a first or a 2023 second plus a good prospect for Adam Henrique with 50% retention, then we might as well just hang onto him for another season. After all, he leads our team in goal scoring and is our best and most reliable faceoff man, in addition to being a key penalty killer, and has another year left on his contract. None of those players interests us: as my learned friend @CHAR points out, we don't need a LhD prospect, Blackwood is redundant with Gibson and Dostal on our roster, and Clarke just doesn't look like an NHL impact player.