OTT declines

Ottawa declines 100% makes no sense for Ottawa at all

Players that are owed 21m....just don't retire.

Why would Ottawa do this at all?

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Lmao you don't move down at the top of the draft to move up in the middle of the draft. You don't pass on better top end skill to get guys with slightly better odds of being depth players

It's hard to gauge the value when trading up/down in the draft but upgrading a 4th to a 3rd and a 6th to a 5th is nowhere near enough value for the Sens to move down about 10 spots in the first round

To the Ottawa fans, I think he misvalued how much of a diff 6OA is to 12OA lol

flyers decline, they either buyout johansen or ltir him for the year

You can’t just ltir someone lol

There's no real incentive for the Jets to downgrade to a player they don't need that kills $1.1 mil of cap space for another two years. Just buy Schmidt out if necessary.

Well then you can bury him to AHL. It's 2,8M buried cap hit. Can't send him to AHL because he's injured right now. So either he's fit to play there or they can just LTIR him.

But tbf, I'd do Johansen - Rutta hockey trade w/o picks involved. Johansen' cap hit ain't problem for the Flyers, so no need to add picks for that. But Rutta could be more useful player for the Flyers.

While I don't think he retires, he could be sent to Robidas Island.



I know it wasn't you, but the Athletic's pick value chart has 6OA as worth 7.6GSAx and 12OA as 5.5 GSAx. The gap of 2.1GSAx is equal to pick 40, though the team trading up often overpays to do so.

A much closer value would be NJD's 2024 2nd and Pitt's 2024 1st (assuming it's 12th) for pick 6, though I suspect the Sharks would need to throw something else in...and that's only if Ottawa for some reason wants to make the trade.

Disregarding the value, I could see the sharks interested in this, especially if we draft 1oa and want another guy, say an RD prospect like Parekh, something along the lines of him because I know that's what we are interested in

well aware, but if he is injured again there is reason to do so

For sure, I think depending on the price and who is available we should try to move up for another top 10 pick. I do question which teams would trade back, though, and don't really see the Sens doing so from 6 unless it's a big overpay.