Quoting: DiehardRedWingsFan58
Huge overpay by the Habs, Dude it's garbage. Why would Tampa have any interest in Jeff Petry for 1 yr at $3.5 mil? A guy that's not even signed yet a 2nd and Ylonen for Sergachev abd Gourde. If you call that overpay, It's garbage overpay.
Quoting: MTLaveragefan
It gives them a top pairing RHDman for next season, for cheap (2M retained). (40 +pts), a high 2nd round pick and good prospect in Ylonen and a 1.5ppg OHL player in Hillis. for a Dman they will lose, and a cap dump.
It buys Tampa time, and gives them the opportunity to compete another year... Or we go the OS route and Tampa can suck on a mid-first round pick in 2021, a second, and a third. And still have holes at D.
Both of you need to get closer to the middle. The offer isn't "garbage" but I wouldn't call Gourde a "dump" either, maybe a cap relief could be a better choice of words? Let's split this deal into pieces, shall we.
-Tampa getting a top pairing defenseman for one year at under 4M$ is a ridiculously good thing.
-Ylönen quietly had an excellent season with a mediocre team in Liiga (Played with the equivalence of fourth liners all year) and Hillis is made in the same mold as Suzuki (This kid's legit the biggest sleeper in our prospect pool), I wouldn't like to trade either of those away.
-High seconds can fetch you guys like Debrincat, Romanov or Aho so don't underestimate the pick.
-Sergachev's value is all over the place on this website, some think they can get McDavid and other offers scrubs for him and 25M$ dumps. Personally I wouldn't offer more (Or something slightly over) his offersheet value, something like a 1st with prospects or whatever.
- Gourde's offense has been on a downward trend for two straight years now, is it worrying? Yes it should be, especially with 6 years left at 5.2M$ (With a no trade clause on top of it). A bottom six winger shouldn't be your fifth cap hit forward if he isn't producing like he did a couple years back so get your head out of your a**, yes he's got some negative value especially with the cap taking a hit this year.