Listen. JEE is a great player. But we’re moving our 1RW who has publicly been made unavailable and one of our top centers for a lot of spare parts here. Joel Eriksson Ek is the only piece that has proven anything at the NHL level. Merrill is a nothing addition and the futures don’t help the caps with what they’re trying to do now - win. If the wild want change, there could be a move of some sort surrounding Kuznetsov and JEE, but I have a feeling that wild fans wouldn’t be happy about that. Maybe I’m wrong though. The caps would absolutely be open to something like that.

Bruins pass

I'm sorry, but this post is just dumb. For the Wild your trading away JEEK who is on a steal of a contract for the perfect amount of time so you can buy for the 23-24 and 24-25 season. Which is stupid because the 23-24 and 24-25 seasons are lost causes with the 14+ million in dead cap. Being honest the Wild won't win the cup those years but they can use those seasons to build for the future so it's stupid to trade away picks and prospects in lost cause years. I'd rather they get young guys playing time to build for the 25-26 season. Plus, I question your knowledge when you have Duhaime and Gus sign for literally pennies when you'd be closer to their actual contracts if you were to x2 what you have for them posted here. Plus, you split up Zuccarello and Kaprizov in favor of keeping Kuzy and Wilson together. Imo you'd have better success if you switched Wilson and Zuccy. In my biased opinion as well I wouldn't even accept the trade if WSH offered it. I guess people forget JEEK put up 60 points while being top 10 in Selke votes. Add in the couple of prospects (plus a random Jon Merrill) and 3 picks and you have a trade that is bad for the Wild imo.

Caps decline. Would definitely add to a kuzy and JEE swap but this deal is bad for DC