How in the world do you come up with an evaluation that Jiricek, who has all of 40 games in the NHL of no particular distinction and half of the productivity of Pavel Mintyukov in exactly the same number of games this season, is worth as much as a guy who has 200 NHL games under his belt, back-to-back 60-point-plus seasons before the age of 23, and scores at a rate of 0.73 PPG even though he spent all but 5 games this season hampered by injuries?!?!?

And it's much more likely that Jiricek wants to go elsewhere than Zegras.

If I'm just winging it, I think a 1st, 3rd + Good (not necessarily A-Level prospect) would be a fair offer. The Pens offer is definitely off, but if a team offers say a 2nd + A-Level prospect? I think that would be something to consider, but obviously Pickering isn't an A-Prospect.

Because the potential of a top pairing rhd is worth way more than a one dimensional center who’s more of a winger which columbus has 4 of.

Whoa dude. I sont think there's any antiamerican bias.
Hughes is a top5 forward in this league by the way. Just like Matthews.

Yes of course now…my comment was aimed more at for when they were prospects

Caps don’t consider this

Lots of talk here like this is a healthy player.
I believe he's got a broken ankle. 8 weeks out.... takes 8 weeks for bone to heal...aka it's broke.

So now you have to ask what is that ankle like. Is he plated?, Was it casted?
Those things matter especially at forward where speed counts. Plating that ankle, fixes it, at best they can go take the plates out but then you got scar tissue build up etc...

It's really hard to trade for players after a break. It usually takes a player 2 years to recover from a break that isn't plated, which is the preferred way for most athletes as they don't want to lose the motion in the ankle.

So even if you did trade for him, highly likely those 2 years are going to look sketchy.
But it could be the break screws his game, like Carl Haglin, his speed was gone after the break.

All this 2 1st... A prospect..... talk..

I don't think a smart GM is doing anything on a player after an ankle fracture. If they do it's cautious.

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You think Harris and 29-32 OA get it done do you?