Probably have to incentivize Francis to take Skjei over Bean. Would imagine if both are available he’d go with Bean and I could see him not making any deals with Carolina bc of how things ended, similar to McPhee and the caps.

If that happens I guess trade Skjei for assets and find a cheaper replacement, may also not be able to resign mcginn so you can use that cap space.

All in all I like the look of this team and think it’s a pretty realistic offseason.

Not sure I see the value in add Tarasenko and his salary and adding another somewhat expensive piece to a stacked blue line while giving up assets and taking up cap space.

I was doing the the STL trade with the assumption it was after the expansion draft, thus skjei is the only one left exposed. If its before then, i would give Seattle a pick to take skjei

The Blue line isnt really stacked anymore. Dunn would be a direct replacement for Skjei

Problem with that is STL very likely moves Dunn prior to ED otherwise he’ll probably be the one taken. Guess you could deal with Seattle if that’s the case but in general I’m weary of dealing with Seattle if I’m the canes. I know Francis isn’t in the business of helping any teams but I’d imagine he’ll take a harder line with us versus any other team

Yeah that is probably the case. Maybe the best bet is to just leave dunn out of the trade and just sign a UFA to play LD on the 2nd pair. Im actually going to edit the team tell me what you think

I really do like Dunn tho and think he’d be a great fit. I’m pretty high on Bean but if we made this deal I’d be fine with risking losing him if Francis doesn’t want to deal with canes in getting a sweetener to not pick him.

The other option would be to do a deal with tarasenko 2 mil retained, and go after Martinez as a UFA. I am a big fan of dunn as well, so i do think he would be a great addition

Blues accept.