First round bust
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There's absolutely no way Panarin waives to go to CGY. He'd have to pay more taxes, and live in a more vanilla city, and deal with the Canadian media and healthcare.
I would do that trade in a heart beat as a Flames fan, because Panarin is a game breaker and NYR would regret losing him for anything less than another star. Moreover I suspect that his contract would look more than reasonable with the next cap increase. It would be very difficult this season to make the cap work, but I wouldn't mind losing more of our UFA's to be in order to make space for Panarin. The 1st round pick doesn't seem like something CGY would like to involve in such a trade, but if that's the price you do it.