Calgary declines

Sens won’t have their 2026 pick tho so something else will to need to be arranged

Edit: Nvm we can give our 2025 pick up in the Vegas situation. I’m not sure if we can go another 3 years with no 1st rounder though.

Really like Connor and hope he becomes a Red Wing eventually. That said, we keep our pick and prospect and hope to sign him in free agency.

Detroit declines

Ehlers is worth that to some team but Chicago isn't at that point yet.

I get what you would like to see, trade your stars to rebuilding teams so you're guaranteed high picks, it just doesn't happen though. Teams that want players like Connor, Helly, Ehlers and Marky will be contenders or wanna be contenders. Getting returns like this is just video game strategies

CHI declines. If CHI is going to spend like that, it will be for a player who is at least 2 years younger. Chances are, by the time CHI is truly ready to contend, Ehlers will be a shell of his current self. I like Ehlers a lot, but this just isn't a move a rebuilding team makes.

And the CHI 1st...idk. for 2 years of just about anyone, that's rich.

Detroit ain't trading a high ceiling prospect in their weakest position to add a winger lol.

Get on the phone to Utah, helly/morrissey/scheifele is basically what they need, they have the cap and assets to make it work too. Craziest blockbuster ever, Hayton/vejimelka/soderstrom and picks and prospects. Then with the cap savings auction off ehlers/connor and anybody else in summer or by deadline and pick our way back in next 3 drafts.

Not sure why a team that's rebuilding is trying to snag guys at ~30, and not sure why Winnipeg would be trading those guys for a bunch of duds in Hayton/Vejmelka/Soderstrom.

Would be all about the picks and the prospects and cap space, not actually the players and cap hits back. Change of scenery guys to just take a flyer on.

Utah is built, they need veteran leadership with a 5 year window ish of solid hockey, morrissey is a bargain, the other two are questionable bargains, coming off a vezina and some scheifeles best hockey could draw a overpay.

DELETE. I'm an idiot lol.

He extended in sept, matching contracts with helly

Yeah when I had pulled up his page it's still showing the current one at the top, so I forgot the extension. My bad.

Why would CGY do that? The last thing we need is Schifele rn

All good, none of this trade idea will come to the light of day, jets headed to mediocre days and then long rebuild, just my own wishful thinking of a quick bottom out tear it down, and rebuild it fast and better. Our blueline is too small or our big guys aren’t mobile enough or have zero hands. Our forwards are something similar, and it all leads to decent regular seasons and early playoff exits. Not complaining, but just tough, when you’re not sure your team has the potential to ever win the last possible game of the year.

I think this will be an offseason of Ehlers extension/trade speculation and Perfetti offer sheet rumblings.

Connor along with ehlers I’m guessing, part of me wishes we would be uncertain on helly and scheifele also. Perfetti/lambert could be interesting yet. Get so invested in this could be the year and then the same old results, build it so up and then be let down again.

Tomorrow is the day for exit interviews / final media availability, so it will be interesting to hear Ehlers' thoughts on an extension (I assume the question will be asked) and what Perfetti says. Anything other than the typical talking points would make that day fun for the rumour mill.

Would be kind of interesting if Columbus comes a calling and try’s to either add ehlers or ship laine back. 2x8.7 with minimal trade able value, got to have a plan to remove the burden or re energize the asset. Always tough to talk like this about people and peoples lives, but here we are. Not exactly sure what would be in the return, but always partial to rhd dman and centers with team control, maybe severson/sillinger blockbuster could be kind of interesting. Probably take some wheeling and dealing, but that is what summer is for.

That would be a wild move and would require a significant sales job by CBJ, as I suspect Ehlers would have them on his 10-team no list just given their recent record.

As long as they don’t need the extension in place, I’m sure ehlers probably takes a flyer to rejoin laine for a year anyway, see where it gets too. New gm so probably wants to make some of his own mark on the team also, previous draft picks and ufa signatures are a little more tradable when the regime changes.

Just curious, have the blue jackets hired a replacement GM yet? I haven't followed them.