Not sure what I’m even looking at here.

What? We didn’t trade our 1st for nothing we got Sean walker who this season has been a better player than byram and dumped a contract that likely costs us a 2nd rounder to dump anyway

What do you mean "for nothing"? They got Walker and Mittelstadt which is an upgrade at both C and D

PIT accepts

Not even going to address that trade offer but we'll give you a 7th for Crosby and your next three first round picks.

Byram for mittlestadt is fine, i think everyone had a feeling we were going to be moving on from a d for a 2C, so thats just a hockey trade.
If we're done making moves i'd call the ryjo move a loss for sure, we have more than enough cap to keep ryjo and bring in walker with something outside the first. SO hopefully we fill that cap space with another big fish but if we don't i don't see the point of the deal.

That 5 mil in cap space can be used to add another impact player though. I think we are really going for it this year. Guentzel and dowd would make this forward for completely ridiculous

dowd i think makes a lot of sense if you can get him half retained. A 4c who can move into 3C if injuries arise at 650k would go a long way on a cap crunch team.

Yeah Guentzel is way more of an unnecessary luxury but dowd at 650k would be a very big add to make a shutdown 4th line and add a PKer that can win a faceoff

why not ask for 50% retention while your at it.