Canes pass. Nothing there to move pesce with retention

Habs pass

Not wasting a rentention slot on evans since he's already has good value and the team could get a better return than just moving up 15-20 spots for evans and a retention slot

Retention slots should be kept for: petry, dvorak or monahan tomaximise their return

Canes decline. There's 0 reason to do this

Habs accept

Holy overpay batman!

These are both ridiculous, neither make sense for Edmonton. Why waste assets if you aren't making the team better?

W/o the retention, habs accept

Brett Pesce makes the team way better. He’d be almost an Ekholm level addition. Hence why I paid a bit less with only one year left on the deal and Ekholm had 3 and is a bit better. Evans is a big upgrade on Pedersen and you’d be getting him for two seasons with retention which raises the acquisition cost a lot

Pesce is nowhere near Ekholm level, that's crazy. And his 5v5 defensive Rels aren't any better than Ceci's despite slightly easier deployment. 1 year v 3 makes a HUGE difference too.

Evans is certainly an upgrade on Pederson but he's not worth a 1st even with money retained. He's a 27-year-old 4th liner with mediocre defensive metrics and zero scoring ability