Sure!

We'd even take Carter too if he would waive

He wouldn't fit under the cap but I get what you're saying, lol.

Throw Fabs on LTIR and definitely not signing Tarasenko according to Yzerman today.

GSVA is an awful metric don’t be fooled

He mentioned addressing our needs in free agency. There's no better scorers in this class than tank. We don't need the cap space and we need the scoring. Age isn't a factor because we re not trading assets for him.

I would love this.

So much nonsensical money on the books.

Fooled by what? A model that assigns value to draft picks? Pick any model you want they all say similar things. I used to use Eric Tlusky's model but he took it down. Either way these trade are fair based on comparable trades.

I don't think thats enough for Vancouver to move back 6 spots in a deep draft. maybe take out the 3rd and we'd do it.

Not sure what you mean by nonsensical but yeah Granlund and Petry aren't great but it's 2 years when we're not making the playoffs anyway. In fact most of the UFA signings will be gone before we compete as well.

Maybe switch the 3rd to your later one?

Yeah sure but you only have $1.2M in cap space and there's no flexibility at all to make any moves, should an opportunity arise.

Tarasenko for 5 years? Maybe 5 years ago, sure.

Honestly, I don't like the Pens deal.
I detest the idea of using the 14th overall pick on cap dumping a player(s). I think we would get a lot more value out of trading it for an impact player or just picking someone ourselves.
Granlund's buyout is really easy to deal with and I think the only reason it hasn't happened yet is Dubas wants to see if he can unload Granny for a more reasonable cost than this.
The list of available options to replace Petry at 2nd pairing RD is insanely slim. Dumba, Mayfield, maybe Klingberg are the only players that caliber. I'd rather just keep Petry over the hope that we'll win the bidding war for one of them.

What moves? Were not making the playoffs. Besides someone will be injured 3 games into the season anyway. Next year there's plenty of cap.

I respect what you're saying but to be fair you do have a guy running things who makes trades just like this.

Other than Tarasenko;

I'd love this.

Dubas looooves his late picks

leafs flat out decline. they traded mrazek, who had 2 years left on the deal. only making about 400k less and only moved down 15 spots. this makes no logical sense to trade the first with murray and only get two thirds... they are going to buy him out. it only puts 640k in cap on them

That's definitely an option but it's worse next year just when the Matthews extension kicks in. What's that gonna cost 15 million? I'm guessing you're going to need every penny in 2024 even if the cap goes up.

I didn’t even look at the free agent signings. I concur.

cap will probably being going up 3-5 million next year
matthews is rumored to only be getting 13 million

Not the rumors I've heard. Either way cap will be at a premium.

Bettman stated that the cap will be going up by 1M lol what are these guys talking about

Dubas has been in a position to need to make those types of moves pretty often. The cap space taken up by Toronto's core 4 means that the margins for their cap are thinner than most teams. Putting a good, cap compliant team around them requires risks and sacrifices.

The Pens don't really have that problem. They have around $20M in cap space right now. They have some big holes to fill, but Dubas has a lot more flexibility in how they get filled than he usually does.
I don't really think this type of move is necessary. It doesn't mean Dubas won't, but IMO it makes it much less likely that he will.