Quoting: dennisb
Thanks for the reply, seems like it's fair to say 'I think' when it comes to a personal opinion.
Think Russell is basically better to have on this team for 2 years than JJ for 4. Or just buyout one I guess.
Hornqvist for your notice has a NTC contract @5.3M till 2023 when he'll be a 36y power-forward. I'd like to hear a case scenario from you when he's moved. I'd appreciate that as I cannot imagine this.
ZAR has had a concussion and with the way he plays I'd be very hopeful that incident was the single one. I liked when he was attached to Malkin and Kessel but would propose he'll be a bottom forward here because right now there are other wingers with the more advanced skillset (Kahun, Galchenuk). On the other side there are a lot of young wingers in WBS making ZAR expendible. I like Rus as well as you but see him as a valuable asset other parties could be interested in and we could replace with less problems.
As for Puljuyarvi I'd say that proposing JJ for JP is either trolling or being a silly proposal. Rather keep JP than accept a cap dump for 4 years. JP has shown skills on a Laine-Aho-Puljuyarvi line but Edmonton used him in a limited role of bottom 6 for 13 mins. If you say a 4th rounder nothing I'd be OK with that bc many team will take a chance to gamble on him for that price.
Last. Jarry has to be waived to play in AHL or they will be stuck with 3 goalies. I would say there are not a lot of teams in need of an unproven backup goaile (Jarry) to trade for. I can guess San Jose and Calgary maybe (better have an experienced good backup for a projected playoffs team). Can you propose your version of a trade? I'll counter PJ for Jarry by now.
Clearly Hornqvist has a NTC, even with it, he'll be moved before Rust. This is a team that wants to be younger and faster. Rust won't be the guy traded because of that. You act like they can't get Hornqvist to waive if they wanted him to. They could.
Jarry doesn't have to be waived anywhere, he will be traded by then. You act like it's hard to trade him, it's not. He makes league minimum.
As far as ZAR having concusion issues, When, from one cheap shot hit by a goon? He isn't a made of glass player in the least.
JJ for JP is about as fair as it gets. Because that's what the value of JP is. It's nothing. He's done nothing at the NHL level to have any value at all. He's had ample opportunity to do so.
I doubt he would even make the team.
PS JJ contract is 2 years. Because he'd be out the door at the expansion draft when they have to give something up to keep seattle off their players anyway. So he'd be the cap dump going out.
So why do you want to burden the team with a worhtless more expensive contract over the next 2 years, that has a NTC on it? No sense in dealing with that, it's probably a worse contract than JJ because you are limited where you can move it. They can send JJ anywhere they want and he's not that hard to move.