The Isles aren’t retaining one single cent on Pageau’s contract, and Nelson is worth significantly more than that Seattle trade proposal.

jesus christ that nelson deal is absolutely awful. nelson is the last person they’d use as a cap dump

Yeah but in that case you'd have to offer more as Pageau at 5.0 AAV doesn't really have positive value, more like salary back going the other way

A top-10 protected 1st and a 34 y/o 4th liner on his last contract year is not very enticing and gets beat easily by someone else.

I never disagreed, but I’m assuming if Pageau’s name has been mentioned then Dorian must have some level of interest. Or he’s just negotiating with the isles to try and get Detroit to give up a better package. Either way, I wouldn’t be too excited about either outcome tbh.

The offer in this ACGM is not very enticing

Agreed, but my issue is the idea that Pageau should require retention. I have an even bigger issue with the Nelson aspect lol.

lmao if you truly believe this you are in for massive disappointment. Debrincat will go for far less than what the senators gave up last offseason as he had a down year and he is due a massive contract. I truly don't even think they will get a first out of him

Yeah I didn't look at that trade but Isles are obviously not going to trade their leading scorer from last season, unless the trade was too good to pass

And I'm scared Sens can't even take Pageau a full cap... Dorion is not a very good manager

What is "this" exactly? There's several points in my post


You don't think a top-10 protected 1st and a 34 y/o 4th liner is FAR FAR less than a 7th OA pick + 2nd + 3rd ???

Yeah lmao as you say