Take out zadorov and I'll give you jost for free

What is up with him? Don't watch a lot of Avs games but feel like he was highly touted coming out of UND.

Hes young, justbdoesnt have a place in the lineup

Wouldn't reject that lol

Jost has everything just hasn’t put it all together. All of his processes are above average just can’t put the puck in the net. 100% nhler

Zadorov and Jost probably EACH have a value around a 2nd + 3rd. So if you offer something worth the equivalent of 2 2nds and 2 3rds (or perhaps slightly less depending on the fit of the return) you're in business. If you instead wanted to include roster players then Buchevnich would be most interesting, but I'm guessing that he's not available.

I believe the plan with Zadorov all along has been to use him to get back into the 2nd round of the 2020 Draft, but as you don't have one of those it might be tough to swing a trade for him. Zadorov doesn't carry enough value to fetch one of your 1sts on his own. That said, if the draft gets held in June it'll be impossible for us to make that trade into the 2nd round, so we may have to settle for a prospect + 2021 3rd kind of deal in the offseason.

Speaking of which, you have a very deep collection of defensemen (mostly LHD's) in your prospect pool. You'd might be better off just bleeding some of them into your lineup that acquiring Zadorov, but perhaps one of them could be included in a trade for Zadorov and/or Jost if you wanted them?

Libor Hayek, LHD ------------- 2016, 2nd #37
Yegor Rykov, LHD ------------ 2016, 5th #132
K'Andre Miller, LHD ---------- 2018, 1st, #22
Nils Lundkvist, RHD ---------- 2018, 1st #28
Matthew Robertson LHD --- 2019 2nd #49
Zachary Jones, LHD ---------- 2019, 3rd #68

In terms of who we'd want, Avs are pretty set at LHD with Girard/Byram/Graves, but in 2023 Graves (assuming he signs a 3 year deal to take him to UFA) and Johnson will likely both need to be replaced. As such, ideally any prospect we acquire (either RHD or LHD) would be ready in around 3 years. So we're probably looking at your Dmen drafted 2018 and onwards. Would you be happy to include one of them with a 2020 3rd or 2021 2nd for Zadorov (if so, which one(s) is/are available, and which are not?)?

Alternatively I suppose you can send us one of your other prospects below but I suppose you'd rather trade a Dman given the depth you have there compared to the positions below.

Karl Henriksson, C ------------ 2019, 2nd, #58
Olof Lindbom, G --------------- 2018 2nd #38




.