Quoting: Randyliberty
Not enough for Hayes. If they retain that much it should reflect. A second and a prospect at least
Sorry not being a jerk but first you are over valuing Hayes and second the CBJ fans are against Hayes in any form on this team. We have a glutten of young wingers and don’t have any room as it is. Now if you are going to say he is a center. He won’t play over Boone Jenner as 1C, we hope to be drafting 1-3 OA and getting a NHL center that can slot into the 2C and we still have Jack R, who plays the 2C now for 1 more year (unless traded). On the 3C/4C we have S Kuraly, C Sillinger, D Voronkov (6’4 215lbs 22 yr old and finishing his KHL contract and starting his entry level deal) also by the way plays 2C and his team is in the Finals.
Now as a winger he would have to win out over Gudreau, Laine, Marchenko, Chinnakov, Foudy, Robinson, K Johnson, Texier, Danforth, Bemstrom, Olivier, Plus J Roslovic if we get a pick in 1-3 OA in the draft. Plus rumors or resigning Nyquist, so my point is we need to send bodies out on the wing and I don’t see Hayes better than anyone in out top 6, he isn’t fleet of foot or overly physical, so that takes him out of our top 9.
Again not trying to insult you but that is the what I believe, but that at this point it means nothing.