Quoting: NickC1988
I'm telling you right now, there's no way he does. Trades/signing don't make sense at all.
Saying they don't make sense is a failure to understand, rather than a valid criticism...
I never said he would outscore him, you're missing the forest for the trees here. First off, Kane could fill the role Willy is in now and would still be likely to make that the best 2nd line in the league. The key thing to understand here is that Nylander is our most valuable asset that we can trade right now with the rest of the top 4 having no trades. Kane is a free asset, who would step in and allow us to trade for a boatload of value elsewhere, while still forming an elite, elite 2nd line.
So it's not just Nylander/Liljegren/Jarnkrok for Jones/Murphy/Raddysh, but Jones/Murphy/Raddysh AND Patrick Kane. This allows us to retain our draft assets and our best prospects while addressing the glaring holes in our backend. And not just addressing them for this year with TDL rentals, but with long term solutions that will allow us to continue saving those futures, with nothing much coming through our defensive pipeline.
Then you consider Kane is $2 mil cheaper this year, but probably more than $5 mil cheaper until he expires. When he does expire, that will leave cap space for RFA contracts of guys like Knies, Cowan, Minten, Woll, etc., contracts we would 100% not be able to complete all of with Willy on the books making 11 mil, as he exits his prime. And again, I know you're latching on to this to further your narrative, but did Matthews somehow get worse after his wrist surgery or did he score 60 goals? I thought surgery was repairing the injury, not creating one...
As I said above, this would leave us with a top 3 forward group and arguably a top 3 defensive group, and a roster that is built for the postseason when checking gets tighter. This team is so much better than what we're icing now it's not even funny, and would quite literally make us cup favourites. Not to mention all the extra high end picks we'd be giving our elite scouting staff.