Neal’s contract is 1 year too long for the Hawks. They basically have to resign every important player in the next two years including Kane and Toews.

Also you can’t send the 2021 1st if this post is supposed to be “after the draft”

Edmonton will either bury Neal or buy him out with a cap hit of 3.8-1.9-1.9-0. That’s too much for Tatar he will get closer to 5 million. Archibald will be protected. I don’t see who Edmonton needs to pay to protect the defence core has nurse-bear-Klefbom who might be worthy of protecting and the rest are free agents. It doesn’t matter if they lose jones Lagesson or Russell none of them are more than 6-7th D and they have more than enough protection spots for the useful forwards.

It’s almost certain that Archibald will be picked in the expansion draft so that trade is unnecessary

Leafs laugh and hang up the phone. We don't need an overrated Turris

This is bad. You overpaid for Tatar and underpaid for Coleman. Coleman isn't getting anything less than 4 million per year. 6 years for Barrie is way too long since the Oilers shouldn't even bring him back since he's super overrated. Bring back Larsson instead. And going 4 years with Yamamoto doesn't make sense. Either go with a bridge deal like 2 years or long term like 6 years, no in between. The James Neal trade is terrible too. A tandem of Koskinen and Delia is terrible and you'd be lucky if that tandem can get you to the playoffs. Giving up a first rounder in that trade doesn't make sense. I would much rather buyout Neal because you still free up cap space and you wouldn't be giving up a first round pick.