Big Philly deal

Major overpay from columbus. Retention should be involved here in at least one spot.

Yeah, CBJ should just acquire players maybe via UFA rather than take on all that extra cap in Hayes and Sanheim. IMO I don't like Sanheim eight year extension.

Hayes to Columbus has been the big rumor being talked up by Friedman. Some people are just getting a bit carried away with it by adding on Sanheim or Provorov or other players to make it more complicated than it will be if anything actually happens. Hayes would work fine for Columbus since he would expire before they need to extend Jiricek or any player they could potentially draft this summer.

Some people are intrigued by the friedge info, and I was just trying to see what kind of possibilities there could be. Judging so far you guys seem to think this is a major overpayment, which bodes well.
Hayes is interesting, fairly solid 2/3C, 30yrs old, never broke the 49 point barrier.. signed to a hellaciously bad contract of 3x7.2M remaining. #CBJ could take this cap dump and include some cap dumps as well. The most valuable part of Hayes is the cap space this would open up to Philly. I'm just trying to figure out a nice trade that helps the #CBJ unload some pieces and I like Sanheim. I think this would be a prime opportunity to acquire a pretty solid puck moving top-4 defenseman. Especially if we can acquire him at little more then taking on Hayes' terrible contract. I get the Sanheim contract isn't ideal, but it should be ok valiue.

The issue with acquiring Sanheim is that it creates a huge logjam for the Jackets upcoming LD. Mateychuk and Svozil are maybe 2-3 years away from being NHL ready so if you add Sanheim to the roster you've locked up 2/3 LD spots until 2027-28 when Werenski's contract is over at a minimum. This is why they weren't able to come to terms with Gavrikov. He wanted term and the Jackets only want someone for the next few years to bridge them to their promising young prospects. I don't mind Hayes at all if the price is right, but Sanheim is a non-starter when following the logic that Jarmo and co. have displayed recently.