Quoting: BigShoots
Your strategy changes when you are building a team vs when you are competing. You never trade high picks while your builiding, simplest of rules follow by pretty much the whole league. Save a few dumbies like Jim Benning and Chuck Fletcher. I think you'll see a lot more of your first round picks traded in the next few yrs because you're always gonna be tight to the cap and a rental will be preferable to someone you have to pay the next season when no money is available. If the avs don't get a strong 2c before the deadline it will be a major failing. You can't give up a chance to win the cup when your team is this strong.
What other solutions do you have in mind? name some guys and what you think theyll cost.
Or you are smart when you trade your high picks to ensure hit stay competitive
Look at Florida, they are the poster child how trading everything in a short time can back fire.
The cost of toews won’t be a 1st, they assume a 2nd is the most bs will get and won’t cost a lot to extend. A 2m aav with performance bonuses
Henrique is another option, he won’t cost an arm and a leg to obtain and he has 1 more year of terms, it’s been said ducks are willing to retain 50% to move him as he has been made available
Chytil in New Yorks name has popped up of guys who are available, young with multiple rfa years left. It’s easier to part with better assets bc of cost control status of an rfa
Those are just some example of guys who could the avs move on at the deadline
It’s not about are they better or worse than horvat, they aren’t. But it’s paying the right price for the need of the line up. They don’t need horvat, they can fill the need other ways
And let’s stop pretending like everyone knows what the avs 2c is like, we don’t, they haven’t played 1 game with their top 6 and they played multiple games with 5/6 of it injured. Before we make claims about the 2c not working or a hole, let’s see at least a game of their top 6 together first