Drury laughs and says no thanks, then counter offers Libor Hajek for Suzuki with 50% retention.

Realistically, if you want Lafreniere, the Rangers aren't going to give him up for less than a top 10 pick+

top 20 pick plus last year 1st ... basicly 2 first ... Seems good to me!

Some pretty choppy waters on those trade values...

Caps hard pass. Mantha is better than Dvorak.

Even if you subscribe to the theory that Cal Petersen's contract is a bad contract (despite the ability to buy it out cheaply in 2024), Josh Anderson's is worse -- much worse. Moreover, the Kings have 15 forwards on the roster for next season already, all of whom could make the team out of training camp, plus youngsters from Ontario like Alex Turcotte and Sam Fa-gem-o who might contend for spots on the main roster, so Anderson isn't needed from a playing-value perspective. (He's scoring at the rate of less than half a point per game, which puts him behind no fewer than EIGHT of our wingers who have played at least 42 games.) So Los Angeles wouldn't be adding a first-round draft pick to what should be a one-for-one exchange (which already favors the Canadiens), which we probably wouldn't make unless we had excellent prospects of passing him on to a team which isn't on his 8-team-no-trade list.

Pens decline

So many trades for lafreniere...because he is french... wow look how well that turned out for drouin... He could even sleep at night while he was here..... stars especiallt\y french stars have too much pressure here. Better to get French grinders for your french interviews. like Harvey...plus lafreniere is already struggling to be top 6 rright now ... the media here would eat him up.... so we pass.

just keep dvorak, you can have mantha for free

Trading one bad contract for a worse one and giving up a first while doing it seems odd...