I fw it

You know as well as I do offer sheets practically never happen, given up on that pipedream.

You're right, it is

I mean it's a fine package for Brodin but Strome isn't the center we need. He'd probably be a 40-50ish point guy on our team without Panarin on his wing. If we move Brodin, it has to fill our need for a good center.

Yeah that ain't it.

The Greenway and Lemieux contracts are cracking me up a bit.

Those are probably the least controversial parts of this

ADA deal is laugh out loud funny. Vegas easily declines

50 point center isn't a good center?

We need a 70ish point center. A 50 point center is great when you have a Zibanejad but when an aging Staal is your 1C another 40-50 point center is not ideal.

Tony DeAngelo is a top 10 purely offensive defenseman in the league (not overall, just offensive). Vegas might not be the right destination for him, but the price tag will definitely be around here if not more. It sucks that he doesn’t fit with us because of money and upcoming RHD depth, but he’s a really good player that just needs to work on his defensive side.

Normally I hate any trade involving Brodin for a Strome, but depending on what that Carolina 1st round pick ends up being..

Well with the expansion draft coming up Minnesota will have to make either Brodin or Dumba available. Minnesota needs to move one of those guys and Strome is a good center. To make up for him not being a 70+ point guy, there’s the first rounder. Plus, Minnesota has their own first which they can use to draft a good center such as Lundell or potentially Perfetti or Rossi if one of them falls. Also, Strome can hold his own to a certain extent, but if you play him with a dynamic winger like Kaprizov, they will benefit off each other’s strengths. The only reason why we don’t see room for him in NY is because of his poor two way game. Minnesota, on the other hand, has plenty of two way players and is arguably one of the best defensive teams in the league, with a great defensive coach in Bruce Boudreau, so Strome is a better fit in that lineup.

I would say it ends up somewhere between 24 and 28. Minnesota picks at 9. If you guys package the 9th overall with Carolina’s and maybe a little sweetener, you could move up to secure an elite center such as Marco Rossi or Cole Perfetti, or stay a 9 and choose a great two way center in Anton Lundell, who admittedly has a lower ceiling.

See but Strome really hasn't been a good center until he came to NYR. He was a 30 point guy for most of his career until he had Panarin as his winger... Boudreau was fired months ago, before the season was paused. Dean Evason is our coach now

They don't need to make Brodin or Dumba available. They could go the 8 skater route and expose a forward.

Bruce Boudreau isn't their coach anymore btw.

Where are you gonna find a 70 point center?

That's the point, until we can find one then I don't think moving Brodin could bring us a return that's worth it.

He'll just walk in FA and then what?

Not necessarily, we can re-sign him easily as we have tons of cap and as @JayTea said we can protect 8 skaters in the expansion draft. Parise and Zucc have NMC so we have to protect those two but honestly the only other forwards we have that are worth protecting are Fiala and Ek. I'd like to protect Kunin but I wouldn't be too devastated if we have to expose him to keep Brodin and Dumba.

Sorry my bad on both statements.

It's not ideal, but if it means protecting top 4 defensemen, I'd expose Greenway, Kunin, Foligno, Sturm, and Hartman without a second thought. Maybe Guerin convinces some of the NMC players to waive their clause, since I can't imagine Seattle having any interest in Suter or Parise.

No worries, the season pause made a lot of the events like Boudreau's firing seem so far away and Evason was signed to a contract as head coach right before the return to play round started so easy to overlook especially for a smaller market team.

He’s had one good season. Literally. One good season. He’s not worth a first and a second.

His offensive analytics are amongst the best for defensemen. And this is his 2nd great season. First he had 30 points in 61 games, and then 53 points in 68 games. He’s legit, there’s no doubt about that.

30 points in 61 games is a solid season. Not worth a 1st and 2nd. You can harp on offensive analytics all you want, he’s atrocious in his own end.