Quoting: TheCelt
Oduya played about 15min a night. I am more than alright with guys of that caliber playing those minutes for us if they're used properly. Hainsey played 8 regular season games for the Penguins and 25 for them in the playoffs. Hainsey is an outlier. You can tell he is an outlier because he made it to top pairing because of an injury, and finished the playoffs with a 43% shot-share. Betting on winning with Hainsey and winning is straight up luck. If we're building teams here, I'd rather not plan on needing that much luck to win.
Paying Trouba 8mill, is absolutely worth it. The guy absolutely ranges from very good to dominant consistently since he joined the Jets. He absolutely earns his money. Now if he doesn't want to sign long term for that, then I can absolutely humor trading him, but then we go out and resign Myers, because Myers is also decent at what he does in a top 4 role. Chiarot ranges from passable to tire-fire depending on whether Byfuglien is carrying him or not. Now to Chiarot's credit, he is trending upwards through the last two years, but that is pretty marginal considering the jump in role he's playing from the last couple years to this year. Morrissey, Trouba, and Byfuglien are great, nothing bad to say about them, but you're still asking the Jets to carry close to 20 minutes of Chiarot a night, and betting on him is an almost Hainsey level of gamble.
Lindholm would be awesome. Unlikely, but still really great to imagine. But on a more realistic note, I would love Erik Gustafsson. That guy would be the perfect fit for our playoff run and for next year given his contract and that he can absolutely bump Chiarot (and Niku next year) down to 3rd pairing. Beaulieu from the sabres would be nice too, but Gustafsson would be muy bueno.
Johnny O played way more then 15 minutes a night when he won cups with Chicago.
Trouba isn't worth $8 million, he just isn't and if they sign him to that then they're screwed. Also if you pay Trouba that much then what's Morrissey get, $9? Cause to me Morrissey is by far the Jets best defenseman.
Trouba isn't worth $8 and Myers isn't gonna be worth whatever increase he gets and being in his very late 20's he needs to go. The cap savings need to be found somewhere and those two are where the savings should be found.
I agree having Chairot in the top 4 isn't ideal but the coach refuses to play Niku so it's the way it is, Chevy needs to do something to either improve the roster for the long term and get someone with term or replace the coach with someone who will use the better players he's been provided.
Gustafsson would actually be the perfect addition, he's very mobile and if they can lock him up his increase will probably take him in the $4-5 million range which is the perfect amount to be paying a defenseman, wonder what it'd take to pry him out of Chicago. Beaulieu would come pretty cheap, could be had for a 3rd or 4th round pick easily. The Jets would be wise to go bargain shopping for an improvement over Chairot, it's too bad there hasn't been any Morrow with Buff this season cause he could maybe get it done for now and he looked good in the playoffs with Buff.