Max a team can retain is 50%; you'd need a 3rd team to take the extra 25%

A 1st or Kravtsov and a 2nd is enough for Toews at 50% retained (max a team can retain). Send the 4th to a team like AZ for another 50% retention.

IMO the main problem with Gallant is that he isn’t open to changing his tactics & developing young players as a project. He is insistent on this dump & chase system and takes on replacement level talent like Hunt/Blais/Brodzinski/Harpur/Tinordi/Reaves/Rooney/Vesey to compliment Laf/Kakko.

The 1st in a Gavrikov deal is non-optional; we're not doing "these guys add up to" equivalents because quantity doesn't help us now.

Viqsi - are you saying a 1st is the minimum for Gavrikov?

That's right, I just wasn't sure how to make that work in this simulator

I'd think you could mayyyybe get away with a 2nd and a stronger prospect for Gavrikov, if it's a prospect that Jarmo's into. But Hajek is a 6th/7th at best, and Skinner has spent most of his professional career bouncing between the AHL & ECHL - they're not gonna cut it.

Yes. Either that or a prospect that 1) meets CBJ needs and 2) is of suffiicient quality that he would go in the late 1st round this year.