we miss leo k
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"what the islanders should do: replace every single D & both goalies for a team that was top-10 in goal prevention last year"
seriously though, i'll indulge:
-this goalie situation is a joke. if you're doing this for 2023-24, you're talking about a Freddie Andersen turning 34. Signing him through his age-40 season at $7M AAV is an awful move. Signing Khudobin for any amount as a 37 year old is somehow a worse move though.
-2 years for Alex Edler is a huge gamble when he's 37. Signing Klingberg to a 7 year deal through his age-37 season is another big gamble. Severson would have to have a *huge* season this year to justify 7x$7M. Conversely, why is Matt Dumba taking a pay cut? And Seattle would love you for offer sheet-ing Dunn at that AAV (in other words: he ain't signing that low.)
-Dobson is worth more than that. Dobson is literally more valuable than every RD you've put on this team - he makes less per season than Klingberg/Severson/Dumba and I would argue he's at least an equal, if not better than all three of those guys. Vancouver pays a lot, lot more for him.
-Ah, here's the Leafs fan trade from "TypicalLeafsFan" - at least you live up to your name. I'd argue that the 2nd rounder here is the cost of dumping Muzzin's deal, making this basically Knies & a 1st for Pulock. Easy pass - you can't get a top pair D for a late 1st and a prospect, something else useful needs to come back.
-Just assuming Romanov goes back to MTL as part of the "should have done" part of this ACGM and they kept their 2022 1st rounder instead.
-Again, Pelech is a no-doubt top pair D. He doesn't go for a single 1st when mid guys like David Savard have been traded for a 1st++ in the last couple years. Ottawa adds a ton more to this package if they want Pelech.
-At this point I just assume you're trolling because this is 2 cap dumps, a mildly useful Tanner Pearson, and a 1st/prospect package for Barzal? If we want to engage seriously, the 1st basically covers the cost of unloading Dickinson & Poolman, which makes the deal Lekkerimaki/Pearson for Barzal. Damn. I've seen a lot of underpayments from Vancouver for Dobson/Barzal packages lately but this one is probably the worst yet.
-Goalie values are always insanely difficult to peg - if I *knew* the Devils had a top 5 pick, and if I wanted to move Sorokin, I would think about this. But that's two pretty colossal "if"s.
-Actually this might be an overpay? I dunno. I don't know how Beauvillier would fit on Calgary and I would want to see him bounce back before I paid a 1st for him if I were another team.
This is just aggressively bad value all around - it replaces a strong D corps with an older, more expensive, and arguably worse one. Major downgrades in goal, especially in terms of value. And the top 6 is a bunch of young, unproven players - statistically it's very likely one of these guys turns out to be a bum.