thats a sexy looking lineup

Remove the pick and maybe BOS accepts

i wouldnt trade for nino, his cap hit is just too big

AA will NOT resign for same$.
At least 3.5-4.0..-~

Than he can sit out so his defensive stats don't get worse.

This all seems fairly realistic to me except the Bruins trade, really can't see them trading Debrusk for a dman.

The difference between a 33-point, first pairing defenseman and a 35-point, third line winger is a 3rd?? What planet are you from?

Your basically staying Tierney is worth the difference of drafting between 20-25 in the 1st round and drafting 33 and 40-45 in the 2nd round. AKA you make his value out to be around a 6th. Tierney would cost you probably your 1st since it would be pretty far into the round

Nobody has EVER moved up from 40 to 20 for just a 6th. Look it up.

The Oilers 1st will be #20. Tierney isn't worth that.

You know he and Holland weren't exactly buddies in Detroit. I can see signing AA as a problem. I'm shocked he traded for him.

That is what I heard as well, but I am not in the dressing room.

Your value assessment is straight trash these days. Take a break.



It's more than manageable over the two seasons he'd be an Oiler. The cap would clearly go up next season and Larsson's cap hit alone coming off the books is enough to cover a raise for RNH and Yamamoto.



There's no incentive for Athanasiou to ask for a raise. He's close to maxing out what a third-line winger should realistically make in this league, and Edmonton's had all of seven games to determine what he is. It's a one-year prove-it deal. Players take these quite often in situations like these.



I'm assuming Krug leaves or Boston really wants to load up on their back end. I keep seeing AGM's signing Edmundson for around $4M to be a top-4 option, and Nurse is clearly the better option.



You know I low-balled the offer to keep New England from sh*tting it's collective pants. I personally think a 2nd Round Pick makes up the difference: there is the matter of Nurse only having 2 years before being a UFA and Edmonton now having control over Debrusk for at least 5 years. I wanted more and started low. What else do you think needs to exist coming back?



It's the 20th pick in a deep draft for the 33rd and 46th picks plus Tierney. A pair of second-round picks doesn't get you the 20th overall pick. If Ottawa wants the luxury of having all of the first round picks this season, let them pay for it. I don't think Tierney is super valuable; he's a pretty run of the mill #3C. I can add a B-prospect to Ottawa if it'll make you feel better.

Dude BOS is already strong at defense, they don't need another d-man. And they don't need to trade a forward, let alone a young one in DeBrusk. The value isn't bad, but it doesn't help BOS

That's all built on the pretense that Krug actually stays in Boston. Not guaranteed: if he wanted to, he'd likely have an extension by now.

I've also been seeing Bruins AGMs signing Joel Edmundson to 4x4 deals or resigning Chara to play top-4 minutes. Keep telling me they don't need blueliners and I'll show you someone that doesn't recognize the Boston system.

Even if Krug leaves I just don't see them trading Debrusk for dman, they were needing to add a top 6 winger for the longest time so they're not trading one now plus Debrusk is young, just don't see him being moved out, if he was traded who replaces him on Krejci's wing, really don't see teams filling one hole by digging another very often and to me that's all this would be for Boston.

Debrusk is - by the numbers - a third line winger however. Nurse is a poor-man's top pairing defender and would do wonders to insulate Vaakanainen until he was top-4 ready. Would this trade free up Boston's ability to perhaps take a shot at signing Hall or Hoffman to fill that gap?

Nurse is set to make $5.6M so I don't think this move would allow for that but maybe.

Again, I'm seeing Bruins AGMs add about $4M worth of defenceman to play in a top-4 role. Coupled with whatever Debrusk is getting and the remaining $3M-ish that most of those AGMs tend to have, and I think they'd be fine.

Do a Bruins post with this trade and signing one of Hoffman or Hall and see how it goes over with the CapFriendly critics.. Lol

Nothing: I wouldn't trade Nurse for a 3rd line winger at all. I think the entire proposal is incredibly Chiarelli-esque.

So then this comes down to how we view Nurse? Or is it Debrusk?

You specifically referred to him as a top-pairing defender. I don't think he's much more than a quality second-pairing defender, but that's more due to me thinking he doesn't have the complete toolkit to be a number one guy. If the issue is Debrusk, by all means name another winger, and I'd happily make the move. I went for Debrusk due to his playstyle and affordability. I'd rather a Domi or an established top-six winger, but it's an issue with cap hits at that point.

A "quality second-pairing defender" still has about 3x the value of a 3rd line winger. The trade is really, really far off base.