As a cbj fan I wouldn’t do it even if lindholm comes with an extension. Feel like 3 firsts, given the state of our franchise, is far too much

The Habs and Coyotes deals are horrendous for Calgary. The Blue Jackets deal makes no sense for either team, and the Sabres deal makes little sense for Buffalo since Dahlen and Power are lefties.

Congrats, you went 0-for-4

And retaining on Elvis for four seasons, pretty terrible for the Jackets.

You can pry Denton Mateychuk from my cold dead hands.

He's theoretically "available" in the sense that we'd move him before Jiricek if it got a perfect player for us, but we spent some high capital on him and he looks like the perfect defenseman to pair with Jiricek in the future. They look like they were made to play together. I think K'Andre Miller would be one of the few players worth trading him for

I'd love Lindholm and would take a risk on Markstrom but we'd have to find some more peripheral assets.

Dahlin plays the right side, so its not out of the question (and in fact given the market likely) that they acquire a lefty.

But i feel like Hanifin signing for 6x6 is on the low end? Why wouldnt calgary just keep him?

I think 6m is fair looking at the Weegar contract.

The reason for trading Hanifin could be one of 3 reasons...
-- 1. He doesn't want to re-sign long-term in Calgary (we've seen 2 American players do this to us since Covid, that said both Gaudreau & Tkachuk are from super close-knit families and live with their families in the off-season, I haven't seen anything close to that with Hanifin.
-- 2. We want to improve our offense by trading from a position of strength
-- 3. We have 4 pending UFA defensemen in the summer of '24 (Hanifin, Tanev, Zadorov & Kylington), we may only be able to retain 3 of 4 and Hanifin may be the odd man out due to salary demands

That said, I don't think Krebs & a 1st is the kind of deal Calgary does because we'd want to add top 6 talent, I don't see us chasing a 1st. I think Krebs would be a target, but I think we'd want Mittlestadt instead of a first.