Weegar isn't a bad defenceman but 2 big issues I see happening is Myers cap hit is hopefully going to be used to cover the raises to Hronek and Petey. So getting Weegar hurts their chances of keeping the truly Important players. Also my personal view is I see this trade as a redoing of the Gudbranson trade where we are going to be upset overpaying for a
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I'll say from a cap perspective it definitely fits, but comes with trade-offs for sure. This isn't a move I would be making in isolation. There's enough space from Cole and Beau coming off the books and the cap bump to sign Petey and Hronek still fill out of the roster with warm bodies.

That being said I think you really need to trade Garland for this to make sense, either for the cap space, or for some of the pieces you need to fill out this roster properly, like D or a 3c.

Personally, my view is, that the best thing we can do with Garland, if it is possible is swap him for a similarly paid 3c with a similar term. Pageau makes the most sense to me since I think you can probably just swap them more or less, but could be a Copp or Ryan Strome. It could also be without term, like Henrique or Roslovic, but I'd actually prefer at least 2 years of term.

My major thought process for this season if it continues similarly, I doubt we keep this pace up, especially without adding, is that we should be adding pieces to compete this year, not just to compete, but to avoid free agency next year or even the year after.

I also think you can use that before you make the moves to go to Petey and Hronek and say here's our plan here's the cap we need to sign you at. How do you feel about that? This is what we need to do to compete. What do you think I don't know about Hronek, but I think that works with Petey.