No thank you Barrie likely walks rantanen is good but not enough 16th overall pick isnt much either when trading the best player in the game plus we are still close to cap..I'd rather just keep McDavid move a bit of cap out an wait a year Edmonton isnt as bad as we all think with proper development an talent coming up I'd rather just wait a year then do a trade like this which hurts us long term

Should have put in the details that Barrie would be extended already (like Rantanen) for 8 yrs at 7.5-8.....obviously that would require more players to get moved out. On my Avs side of the trade, it was said that changing the 16th pick to 4th and adding in Lucic would be more realistic and I agree on that end (would help with the additional cap hit for Barrie).

They (in theory) wouldn't need to make a trade for Reimer but figured they would add a vet goalie and get a better pick for doing so, but they could sign another vet for less or bring up a ELC goalie if they really were confident in Koskinen.

EDM has some problem contracts even if they got rid of the Lucic hit, but depending on how patient Holland is/the club is with him, in a couple years when some of those deals are gone (Russell and Sekera in particular) they might be able to build something