How to facilitate a Cat trade

Team: 2023-24 Dallas Stars

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 21, 2023

Published: Jun. 21, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Personally speaking, I see very few ways to make this happen, simply due to cap space.

DeBrincat is a great player no doubt, but he's not exactly a huge fit to fix our biggest weakness, that being our mid defense. It's way too reliant on Miro, who has to carry a bunch of scrubs. Acquiring DeBrincat will only make fixing our defense that much tougher.

That all being said, rumors are that DeBrincat would like to sign long-term with Dallas. So if we were to make a trade happen, what would it look like then? Well, for starters, some money would no doubt have to go Ottawa's way. Marchment and Faksa are probably the most expendable guys for Dallas to give out, and they would provide Ottawa decent options for mid-6/bottom-6 roles respectively. DAL would also have to give out a very good prospect, and a pick I wager.

As much as I'd like to keep Stankoven around, prime DeBrincat is basically the ceiling of what Stankoven is expected to reach as a small sniper-like guy.

As for Cats new contract, I think Kyrou deal set a decent precedent for it. 8 years, $65M bucks. Could be a bit more, if necessary, but since DAL has the tax advantage going their way, the total money would end up being higher in Dallas regardless. What a nice little perk to have...

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