Columbus declines. Hayes doesn't move the gauge enough for me to go spending that kind of assets in this deep of a draft.

Given hart is coming off of one of his good seasons, I do not mind the idea of possibly selling high but grabbing Levi seems like a must but I do not know if buffalo wants to trade him

I could see a contender wanting Tony D, not sjs

No one should be paying two firsts for provorov, someone may though. It won’t be Winnipeg given the logjam they have at LD already

I think the Kevin Hayes deal could make sense for both sides

Buying out seeler seems unnecessary as well

Not sure the trade values are 100%.

However, whats the point? You've got alot of draft capitol, especially in 2024, but by the time those picks become developed in 3-4 years, guys like koneckny, farabee, cates, sanheim, frost, risto are all near their 30s, so you're just wasting their careers for futures that may or may not pan out? And guys like couts, laughton will be done, and you've got 19mil in unused cap space to ice a team that fans will not watch.

This team is currently 10 solid young players 25 or less, including probably 8 guys who are in their 2nd year or less, with blue chips like brink, andrae, gautheir in 1-2 years away. The rebuild in one way or another has ALREADY started, and while theres not a crosby, bedard there, theres more than enough talent to say that trading 2 guys who above average and 25 or less for crystal ball futures in 2024 or 2025 is no sure thing to assist in a rebuild thats already occurring.

If a great offer comes for Provorov, sure, but that offer for Hart isnt great, and we really dont have anything to replace him. In fact, the sheer fact we have no real re-signable UFAs and 3 key guys hitting their bridge RFA deals, demonstrate that the rebuild has begun.

Trade Hayes, trade deangelo, sure...but its better to keep developing/playing what youth we have instead of wasting their prime years and waiting on a future that might not develop.

IMO when you look at the injuries to the top 6 forwards the last 2 years, you cant say that their health wouldn't have made better production/results, (in fact in 21-22, 4 of the top 6 forwards missed 20 games or more, in 22-23 couts and atkinson didnt play at all), you play the youth we have and develop them and trade hayes, deangelo and then use the cap space to get the right high end vets to enable their development.

Buffalo is not trading levi

Buffalo declines

Buffalo package isn’t enough and WPG deal is too much from WPG

Buffalo would be trading for Heart to be a bridge to get to Levi once he develops and is ready to be the starter.