I like it for the Avs but I don't think MIN would go for it

Hard to imagine that two bitter intra-divisional rivals would make a major trade.

It's a swift and resounding no from Minnesota here

Really?

Absolutely. Faber is at least as valuable as Byram at this point, and Eriksson Ek is by far the best player in the deal, signed to a great contract long term.

Would love Eriksson Ek for the Avs 2C spot and that's a fair old package there even though I suspect Minny still wouldn't go for it. We could always try ol' silky hands MacDermid at 2C though!

Faber is like the only defensemen I know on your team besides surgeon, which his why I added him.

I think I'd use the same package to get Cirelli as well

He looks very good as a 21 year old rookie playing top-4 minutes. He's very defense first, but the offense is there once in a while. But he's been excellent at shutting down top competition.

Hate it

Bro Cirelli has never had a 50pt season and you’d trade the equivalent of 3 1st round picks and more?

I definitely wouldn't do that package for Cirelli if I were Joe/GMCM.

Fabre isn’t close to Byram. Knock Byram for availability issues but don’t pretend he didn’t outright dominate in the cup run and his offense is so many magnitudes higher it isn’t funny on just about every other team in the league he is a top pairing and on a very healthy amount he is the #1 dman. Calling Faber close is the ultimate homer call.

Sheesh, talk about ironic

Uh huh, and let's not pretend that Faber's defense isn't so many magnitudes better than Byram's here either. Byram is an offensive defenseman whose is barely an average defender. While Faber is a defensive shutdown defenseman whose is solid offensively.

Comparing the two stylistically is moronic and an apples to oranges affair. Especially when Faber is closer to a Jonas Brodin, Adam Pelech, Jacob Slavin, or Devon Toews type of defender. That doesn't diminish his value, it's just a different TYPE of value. This has nothing to do with skillset and absolutely everything to do with PLAYER VALUE.

Furthermore, Byram is hardly a #1 on most teams, he's maybe a #2 but primarily a #3. Same as faber.

Their VALUE is the same, regardless of who does what, or plays a certain way.

But you want to mouth off about being homer'ish. Pot meet kettle.

Gotta agree with you guys on this one. Currently Byram and Faber are roughly equal while JEE >> Johansen + Ritchie + 1st