Shame, he would bring some needed items to the Rangers. But that contract is way too long for way too much, especially considering his production has been trending down.

I see Nashville wanting too much in order to retain enough salary for it to make sense.

Johansen>

Yea would easily rather this with johanson. Better, better defensively, still great at faceoffs, better offensively and younger and a year less. Also would still be open to sending trouba and strome their for johanson retained and myers (with other pieces)

It is a really long deal to have to handle especially if he doesn’t turn it around. Nashville was ready to give him away for nothing at the expansion draft. My idea in the trade was to give two 2nds with him, send Strome to replace at center, let’s them take his cap back and then either resign him or flip him for close to what they gave up with duchene. Get hajek and Gauthier for the 5 year cap retention instead of 10 years of buyout cap hits if they went that route

Letting SEA take Duchene for free would have been fine, but retaining $2.5M for the length of Duchene's contract, and having to take Strome back doesn't seem wise from NSH's perspective. Plus, I'd rather have Afanseyev and the 2nd instead of Gauthier and Hajek, so that part of the proposal isn't adding any value for NSH either. Sorry, but it's an easy pass from the Preds.

I like it. $5.5 mil isn’t bad for a 2C. Contract might be long, but I’d be willing to take the chance he could rebound with Panarin and either Kakko or Kravtsov imo.