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Created by: Jrader17

Team: 2021-22 Arizona Coyotes

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 16, 2021

Published: Apr. 16, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

I think you can make an argument that the Coyotes have the best chance to take advantage of the expansion draft more than any other team.. except maybe Detroit.

As it stands now the Coyotes would like protect in a 7-3-1 Kessel (NMC), Keller, Schmaltz, Dvorak, Garland, Larsson, one of Pitlick/Crouse/Fischer

OEL, Chychrun, blank spot (no seriously we don’t have a 3rd D that qualifies for protection).

Kuemper.

They way I see it. Between the blank D spot, the Pitlick/Crouse/ Fischer spot, and Larsson. The Coyotes essentially have 3 protection spots available. Since those two forward spots are currently taken up by players who are not worthy of protection and losing any of them would not hurt any decent team.

There are several teams with protection issues, whether it’s St Louis, Minnesota, Toronto, Tampa, Carolina, etc.

It is CRUCIAL.. no VITAL. That the Coyotes upgrade and use their 3 available protection spots as leverage. The same can be said of the 32 million in cap space. It NEEDS to be leveraged to upgrade the roster.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Garland, Conor	5	$5,500,000
Gross, Jordan	1	$750,000
Hunt, Dryden	1	$750,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Goligoski, Alex	1	$2,000,000
Larsson, Adam	2	$3,000,000
Lyubushkin, Ilya	2	$1,000,000
Merrill, Jon	1	$1,500,000
Saad, Brandon	4	$4,500,000
Andersen, Frederik	1	$1,000,000
Dzingel, Ryan	1	$1,000,000
Bunting, Michael	1	$750,000

Trades

ARI

2021 7th round pick (CHI)

CHI

Fischer, Christian

Additional Details:

I would very much not like to watch Christian Fischer play for the Coyotes any more. He's an active negative player at 5v5 and generates no offense. For a guy with size he's such a perimeter player. He's from Chicago, Chicago likes to trade for people from Chicago.

ARI

ANA

Hill, Adin [RFA Rights]

Additional Details:

I assume the Hill will be the expansion pick by Seattle

ARI

Dumba, Matt

MIN

Capobianco, Kyle
2022 3rd round pick (ARI)

Additional Details:

Instead of losing Dumba for nothing to Seattle.. the Wild get decent pick and an upside prospect back.

ARI

Blais, Samuel

STL

2021 4th round pick (PIT)

Additional Details:

St Louis is likely to have to expose Blais, Barbashev, Sanford, and Dunn. They recoup something for Blais instead of losing him for nothing or having to make a side deal with Seattle on a protection arrangement.

Obviously from his time in Stl Bill Armstrong knows these players well. Blais fits the profile of the kind of player he's been open about wanting to bring into AZ.

ARI

Eriksson, Loui
Woo, Jett
2021 2nd round pick (VAN)

VAN

The Canucks are in cap hell. Perpetuated by the puzzling signing of Tanner Pearson. They need to resign Pettersson and Hughes, as well as add depth. Loui Eriksson's 6 mil cap hit is obviously an obstacle to that. Eriksson's "real money" is only 4 mil, so the Coyotes take that on and the price is a second round pick and decent prospect in Jett Woo.

Another huge organizational weak spot for the Coyotes is RHD. It's really just Victor Soderstrom and no one else. Woo gives them a high upside player, who is right handed, Bill Armstrong isn't afraid to let players bake in the AHL, so your top 4 RHD next season in Tucson could be Woo and Soderstrom... vying for who gets to be Chychrun's long term partner.

I've heard from Canucks fans that this a fair price and I agree. Taking the full freight of Eriksson is a lot but the extra pick and prospect make it a smart long term play for the Coyotes.

Buyouts

Michael Grabner: $1,258,333

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2021
2022
2023

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$81,500,000	$78,567,784	$196,951	$2,150,000	$2,932,216

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Keller, Clayton $7,150,000$7,150,000 LW, RW UFA - 7	Schmaltz, Nick $5,850,000$5,850,000 RW, C UFA - 5	Garland, Conor $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 5
Saad, Brandon $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 5	Hayton, Barrett $894,167$894,167 ($2,150,000$2M) C, LW RFA - 1	Kessel, Phil $6,800,000$6,800,000 RW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1
Dzingel, Ryan $1,000,000$1,000,000 LW, RW, C UFA - 1	Dvorak, Christian $4,450,000$4,450,000 C UFA - 4	Blais, Samuel $1,500,000$1,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
Crouse, Lawson $1,533,333$1,533,333 LW, RW UFA - 1	Larsson, Johan $700,000$700,000 C, LW UFA - 1	Pitlick, Tyler $1,750,000$1,750,000 RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Ekman-Larsson, Oliver $7,260,000$7,260,000 LD NMC UFA - 6	Dumba, Matt $6,000,000$6,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2	Kuemper, Darcy $3,500,000$3,500,000 G UFA - 1
Chychrun, Jakob $4,600,000$4,600,000 LD/RD UFA - 4	Goligoski, Alex $2,000,000$2,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 1
Merrill, Jon $1,500,000$1,500,000 LD UFA - 1	Larsson, Adam $3,000,000$3,000,000 RD UFA - 4	Andersen, Frederik $1,000,000$1,000,000 G UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Lyubushkin, Ilya $1,000,000$1,000,000 RD UFA - 1
Bunting, Michael $750,000$750,000 LW UFA - 2

Taxi Squad
Prosvetov, Ivan $809,167$809,167 ($0$0$0$0) ($82,500$82K) G RFA - 1
Hunt, Dryden $750,000$750,000 ($0$0$0$0) LW, RW UFA - 2
Gross, Jordan $750,000$750,000 ($0$0$0$0) RD UFA - 1
Eriksson, Loui $6,000,000$6,000,000 ($4,875,000$5M$4,875,000$5M) LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 1

Apr. 16, 2021 at 5:26 p.m.

Kyle_Davidson

Kyle from Chicago

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Why are you sweet talking the Chicago trade up so much?

Apr. 16, 2021 at 5:35 p.m.

Morzski

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Edited Apr. 16, 2021 at 5:42 p.m.

A 3rd and a LD who's had success in the AHL but hasn't been able to stay up with AZ in the NHL...that's not gonna get Dumba.
The Wild can go 8-1 keep Dumba and Seattle can pick from Greenway, Foligno, Hartman, Soucy and Talbot.

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Apr. 16, 2021 at 5:37 p.m.

SlickWilly

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Quoting: Stan_Bowman

Why are you sweet talking the Chicago trade up so much?

I mean, OP isnt wrong, Bowman loves trading for Chicago guys

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Apr. 16, 2021 at 5:39 p.m.

Kyle_Davidson

Kyle from Chicago

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Quoting: SlickWilly

I mean, OP isnt wrong, Bowman loves trading for Chicago guys

It's just funny to me when a person says, I hate watching this player so much... and please pay us to take him away.

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Apr. 16, 2021 at 6:02 p.m.

OldNYIfan

Once a Kings Fan Too

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I like everything here except your idea of Matt Dumba's trade value, and the problem is that Arizona doesn't have the expendable high draft pick I think that acquisition would take.

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Apr. 16, 2021 at 6:10 p.m.

RazWild

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Don't be insulting...

Your not getting Dumba for a 3rd and a meh-level LD prospect. Dumba's value was a 1st+ before expansion draft concerns then, same as it is now. Just because people think they can lowball us because of the expansion draft, doesn't mean his value is any less than a 1st+.

Either you give us Dvorak for Dumba strait up.

Or

Give us Hayton + your 2022 1st for Dumba

Take your pick, it's one or the other.

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Apr. 16, 2021 at 6:12 p.m.

C21

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The Wild will go 4-4-1 so they don't even need to move Dumba but just to play into this narrative that they need to move him or lose him for nothing, that offer gets laughed at

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Apr. 16, 2021 at 6:42 p.m.

ModanoisCool

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Edited Apr. 16, 2021 at 6:49 p.m.

Worst proposal ever. This won't ever get you dumba

Apr. 16, 2021 at 6:50 p.m.

Jrader17

Thread Starter

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Quoting: Stan_Bowman

It's just funny to me when a person says, I hate watching this player so much... and please pay us to take him away.

Well the comp coming back the other way is literally a 7th round pick. Not like I have Dach coming back the other way.

Apr. 16, 2021 at 7:00 p.m.

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Kyle_Davidson

Kyle from Chicago

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Quoting: Jrader17

Well the comp coming back the other way is literally a 7th round pick. Not like I have Dach coming back the other way.

I'm not trying to say Chicago wouldn't do it, just saying how you handled the trade is funny.

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Apr. 16, 2021 at 7:00 p.m.

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Jrader17

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Quoting: RazWild

You so sure about that 4-4-1 protection? Signing Greenway to a two year deal knowing well in advance he'd a be a player who needed protection doesn't make much sense to then expose him.. especially given his play this year, he's gonna get protected. Second, you're at 23 mil in cap space next year with Kaprizov, Fiala (probably 12 mil combined), Eriksson-Ek (around 3 mil) and Kahkonen (around 3?) .. so that's 18 eaten up right their with the Johansson and Bonino spots to upgrade/fill? Dumba's 6 mil out helps with that problem.

Dumba is great he really is. But if he's exposed (which he will be) he's gone for nothing.. literally nothing.. and any side protection deal you make with Seattle would cost you a lot more than what I proposed (most likely handing over one of your two 2021 firsts..) which if you'd rather give up a first to keep Dumba that's fine that makes sense.. but the idea that any team would give the Wild a 1st or a top prospect for Dumba when the Wild are over a barrel doesn't track.

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Apr. 16, 2021 at 7:18 p.m.

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Radu47

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Quoting: RazWild

Capob isn't a meh level prospect though

Almost scored at a point per game rate in the AHL last season as a 22 year old D and it wasn't a JSchultz playing with Hall/RNH/Arco situation at all

He nearly had the highest scoring rate on the team!

Why write such a big post while ignoring a key detail

It's not his fault AZ don't call him up more often

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Apr. 16, 2021 at 10:46 p.m.

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Beetlejuice

In Connor We Trust

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Quoting: Stan_Bowman

Why are you sweet talking the Chicago trade up so much?

Quoting: SlickWilly

I mean, OP isnt wrong, Bowman loves trading for Chicago guys

I'm a little bias right now, I'd accept this trade my family is good friends with Christian's family and I know him and he gave me his world junior stick as a birthday gift. Bowman wanted to draft him in 2015 and wanted to trade for him in the Strome trade and Hossa trade but Arizona didn't want to give him up. He has good numbers in the juniors and AHL and know who maybe a change in scenario in his home town he can thrive.

Apr. 17, 2021 at 10:37 a.m.

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West_Virginia_Take_Me_Home

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SO we give up Blais for a measly 4th and then have to lose another player in the draft?

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