Im not a Duck fan but would they ever not save Fowler? Im not sure how good he is but is has a big contract

I’m not a ducks fan but wouldn’t think fleury is worth changing expansion plans over.

Your 7-3-1 makes the most sense, but since when are we using that standard now that we've seen this abominably short-sighted trade?

There's a rumor that Murray might be stupid enough to expose Fowler on the theory that Seattle might balk at taking on his contract, but I don't think even he's that dumb. So I guess we'll expose the guy we traded our biggest blue-line hitter for, thereby running the risk of seeing him play fewer than 14 games for us.

Or maybe Murray's "master plan" is to trade Hampus Lindholm before the expansion draft and hope that Fleury will flower (pun intended) into his replacement. George The Shrub Bush had a term for this: "turd blossom." I can't see it working.

Shea Theodore, Marcus Pettersson, Christian Djoos, now Jani Hakanpaa . . . all errors of entirely different degrees, to be sure, but emblematic of an inability to properly analyze defensive futures.

This is the correct answer. Whatever problem/ plan was in place before is still in place. Fleury played well at the end of last year and in the bubble when he was given mins and played physical...just didn’t see it enough

I agree. If I'm Seattle, my pick is Mahura anyway. Fill up on high potential RFAs opportunities.

Hakanpaa is a pending free agent, who says he wants to come back here? And who's to say he won't come back in the summer? Either he intends to sign elsewhere anyway so might as well get something for him. Or he wants to sign here in which case you have to wait until after (I was gonna say July 1st but I have no idea when free agency is supposed to start this summer) anyway because re-signing him now would be dumb because of the expansion draft. I mean I guess you run the risk of him really liking it in Carolina. I like Hawk, a lot, but he's not special. It would be nice if he re-signs in the summer no big deal if he doesn't.

Murray has made a lot of bad moves (he's never going to live down Theodore to Vegas; though to be fair, Shea absolutely transformed after that trade) but this certainly not one of them.

I think Murray is going to do everything in his power to make it so Francis only has Silfverberg, Henrique and Shattenkirk to choose from and he takes one of them off of his hands. Maybe he just offers him Sam Steel in a trade and saves himself some hassle. I don't think Fleury impacts things at all.