No interest in Frans. Like, less than zero. He sucks now and he was overrated as an Islander.

But, give me Dylan Larkin any day of the week. He's a ****ing stud. I'd kill for him on this team.

Not to mention the cap hit...this scenerio above would create a very smelly cap situation next year, even with a slight increase in the CAP, to say $83.5M?

Even if they blow it up, I doubt Steve Yzerman would want to trade Dylan Larkin. He is a very valuable piece in the future. Nielsen, I would try to retain salary for, if possible.

I actually already backtested it and made it work rather easily.

Trade Leddy for 2 2nds.
Trade Komarov ($1M retained) with a 2nd for a 6th.

Barzal $7x3
Pulock $6.5x5
Toews $4x5

Gotta remember - unless Ladd goes to LTIR he is on Isles books for $4.45M or so even buried in the minors. Isles true cap increase is barely over $1M (and not to mention, Frans' deal is up a year sooner than Ladd)

If Stevie were to Nuke it, Larkin and probably Bertuzzi and Hronek are not going anywhere. AA and Mantha would be 1st to go. So this is not plausible.

I wouldn't mind Mantha. He would probably fetch near this price. Would depend on the contract he comes with