Quoting: WALaxer19
That just won't happen. Ryan and 4th for 8th and Anisimov maybe, with money retained on Ryan.
OH hell no - 8th would be out of the question...... 27th and Hossa for Bobby Ryan (6 million dollars in cash savings for Ottawa) and 4th overall..
If 8th overall was the counter proposal I would hang up the damn phone and not pick it up again if it was Ottawa.
Hossa's salary is only 1 million dollars, Ryan's salary is 7.25.
Why would Ottawa want Anisimov when his salary is like 4.50?
With Hossa Ottawa basically saves like 6 million dollars in real cash..... With Anisimov they save 2.75 million...
The whole point of that trade is to free up cash (because Ottawa is on a budget) so Melnyk can get Karlsson re-signed..
It's not like Hossa is hurting the Hawks at all - his contract doesn't handcuff Bowman on what he can spend this summer considering Bowman can go 10% over the salary cap in the off-season.
So Hossa has a lot of value, weather a team wants to dump a more expensive salary for Hossa's 1 million dollar salary, or even if teams want to use Hossa to circumvent the salary cap floor - because from a salary cap position Hossa is basically a 4.275 million dollar "salary cap coupon"... But in this trade Hossa would be used to free up real cash to get Karlsson re-signed ..... So yea, trading for Anisimov does nothing for Melnyk's $$$$ problem.....
Sure, if they wanted a warm body thrown into the trade (that can play) along with Hossa - I would toss in Duclair no problem.