I see my apologies than cause we are of like mind, our roster has holes (2RD, 2C and 1LD) but we do have some very very good hockey players and rebuilding seems counter productive to me. We have a good future core set up to take over in 1-3 years and a team that can make the playoffs with 2 or 3 good moves. These kinds of threads just irritate me, hence the comments lol. Thanks for clearing up your motive behind the thread and again I apologize for my responses.

Of course I do O'Connor is very good. No wonder the announcers by mistake call him Mackinnon. He is a mini nate. Francouz is never going to go back to before. And Allen's stats are bad bc he plays on the Habs. Francouz is good bc Colorado is good.

Francouz has been good in every league he has played in, hes not good bc "Colorado makes him good"
Allen is bad bc Allen is bad, he was bad on the blues too

Sabres probably reject? Try the Sabres certainly reject I wouldn’t do Hoffman + a 3rd for Joki. I also wouldn’t do Hoffman+ a 3rd for Peterka. Put them both together and you have a laughing matter.

Exactly! Though unless Petry regains his form we need a 1rd. Which is why Maillouxs selection bothered me bc he Won't end up playing on the Habs. It was totally a wasted 1st round pick.
Suzuki hasn't been as good this year but that's probably from him having to take more defense responsibilities. Still I am disappointed from zukes. The thing for #1 LD is that we can't go for someone like chychrun bc norlinder,guhle,Harris,romy are here. And if one or 2 of them are worthy of top Ld pair, they should be granted with it. The only thing is we would need a veteran LD on a 1-3 year contract who is top d caliber. Just for this year Habs should sell the rentals and try to contend next year and so forth. It would be risky to waste 2-4 years of zukes,cole,romy during a rebuild while playing with not up to par linemates

why are the Oilers giving up picks in that trade

Not this year, he isn't.

But that's irrelevant, because you're missing the entire point. Gallagher turns 30 at the end of this season and his current contract runs until he's 35. We already know what Lucic's 32nd and 33rd years are going to be like, because he's already lived them; in contrast, Gallagher has been declining over the past two seasons, his 32nd and 33rd years are still two seasons away, whatever team owns him is going to have to pay him $17 million over those two years, and then there's two more years under contract after that. That's why his value is no where near what you think it is.

You're also overlooking the fact that Gallagher has a $1.25 million higher cap hit than Lucic, which will make resigning Tkachuk and Gaudreau all that more difficult.

His point total has decreased bc of injuries. He would score 25 to 30 goals in a full year, along with 45 to 55 points

Tkachuk is far, far better than Fiala...

I remember when Pacioretty was declining and Vegas still gave up Suzuki, Tatar, and a 2nd, while also signing him to a 4x7 contract at 30.
Fast forward 3 years and suddenly 30 goal scorers are cap dumps at 30 years old and $6.5M.

Generally accepted value is a 3rd and a 5th. Huh.

I'd rather be wrong with the crowd that underestimated Hughes' ability to strike deals (i.e., virtually the entire universe outside Montreal fans) than the only guy in North America who thinks that Josh Anderson has more value than Arthur Kaliyev.