If you make this trade you are going for it now so you will want to keep DeBrusk. That means adding Beecher to the offer and probably a first. Have to have Moore or Kase in the deal for cap purposes but that will cost you as well from a Nashville standpoint. That's the 2021 2nd. So ...
1. Studnicka
2. Vaak
3. Beecher
4. Zboril
5.2021 1st
6. Moore and 2021 2nd
That's 5 pieces for these 2 players plus the Moore part. Nashville isn't taking him/Kase for free. Not sure that's enough and even if so do you still want to go there.

Are you really saying that Kase will cost the Bruins to get rid of? If so, you are way way off base. He is a 25 year old top 6 winger who is an analytics freak and is very good to elite defensively. He has played 7.5 games in a Bruins uniform, let's give it a little more than that. I thought he was snakebit in the playoffs and 0 for 27 SOG isn't going to standup statistically. He had a bad year last year. Lot's of injuries, Covid, he was traded then broke protocol.

In his previous 100 games, he was averaging 27g & 50pts per 82. His issue is his ability to stay healthy. Those numbers are particularly impressive when you factor in the games he is hurt in and misses and the dud games getting back into game shape.

I am not willing to bail on him yet, in fact I am 100% sure he is protected in the Expansion draft. I think last year he was worth a first and this year a 2nd. Could change depending on what he does when he's back. Dude can play, it's all about his health.

My point on Moore/Kase was only cap related. Forget I mentioned Kase in this trade. It costs you an extra asset to include Moore in the trade because Nashville has no use for him because they are already getting Zboril/Vaak. Are you still making the trade with the 5 pieces or the or the 6 if you are including Moore? Is it enough to get the deal done? If it is do you still want to do it?

Boston does need for Kase to be a top six winger. He's played 19 games with Boston w 0 goals. They need him but unfortunately concussion prone players often never get back to where they were. He will have to get back this year and prove himself before they even think of protecting him in the expansion draft.

Again. He has played 7.5 regular season games. 19 if you include the covid playoffs which, he was actually very good. No he didn't bury, but he was very good. Like, scarily good.
He had nearly a 60% Corsi and Fenwick in the playoffs last year. Surprisingly starting in the D zone nearly 70% of the time.

The injuries are certainly a concern, but he has 26 less points than Jake Debrusk through their 200 game careers. I don't know, do you have the same worry about Debrusk? He wasn't very good last year and has 1 through 10 games?

Yes, he needs to finish, but he was playing incredibly well. The goals will come.

Not worried about DeBrusk. He scored 19 goals last year and when you first proposed this trade before you went way off tangent I said you had to hold onto him since this trade is for the now. You won't discuss my trade proposal based on your original proposal so I'm respectfully out.

I did. It's a solid hard no. Too much. There is just no way you give up Beecher and Studnicka and Vaakanianen, plus 1st, and Zboril.

Assuming Zboril it taken by Seattle. That's four pieces under control for a 6-7 years each. I don't see a world which they can afford to resign both in two years. The Bruins have a ton of depth at wing in their system, & they seem to really be able to draft and develop defensemen. Lohrei, Ahcan, & Berglund willbe the next wave. They have not been able to develop a center since Krejci. It seems like Studnicka, and Beecher actually be good. I can't give them both up, and be looking at the same center group they currently have, but two years older



You were the one who made the assumption that Kase was in for salary reasons. He wasn't. He was in because he is good, young and under team control. Type of guy you can keep or flip or hold a year and flip for a worst case 2nd rd pick.

The deal I Made only works because it pretty much means you have another year to get a center. Resign krejci for one and Develop Beecher. With the real plan being sign Barkov, but since FLA is now winning those odds are going down.

I guess my greater point with Debrusk was pointing out your inconsistencies in logic. Debrusk scored 27 got absolutely lit up in the playoffs and was clearly concussed, had a down season had a 25% drop in goal production and now has started with 1 goal in 10 games, having already missed time this season with a LBI.