Issue is, he doesn't only give you 30 points a season. With an EXTREMELY low PDO, his underlyings still suggest he's a 40-50 point dude. That's why you CANNOT move him. He's playing at a $4.8 level, he's just not getting the production to match it. It's his first down year, and he's not even had a worse season than Staal. It makes so much more sense to keep a 23 year old with extremely promising underlying numbers than it does to dump him. It's why, like it or not, Kotkaniemi's staying here

The first taker that doesn’t demand assets attached/retention will be his new team.

Or, you keep him, and have an extremely talented 24 year old that will be a middle six center for a long time and shift deadwood like Fast and Staal... what makes more sense here lmao

Or he gets healthy scratched by Thursday.

Get over yourself.