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Bflo_Soldier

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Forum: NHLAug. 12 at 2:55 p.m.
Thread: Trading Matthews
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>OilersinFour</b></div><div>Not trying to troll, but the more I look at the Leafs roster and prospects, I honestly think the only way Toronto has any chance at a winning team is trading Matthews. None of the other big four will net them anything close in assets needed back plus the cap space to improve the "team" enough to win. IF the Leafs make the playoffs this year, it's likely as a wild card and another 1st round exit. He's then one year to his NMC and the Leafs don't want to be stuck in that final year if he doesn't sign an extension and block any potential moves. Tough spot. Still don't understand why they signed Travares as that is probably the root cause of where they are and he won't waive for a trade. I don't see either Marner or Nylander getting that much back as they are good, but overpaid wingers. Centers bring more back.

I could care less about the Leafs, just interesting to see how this has played out. The Leafs don't want to trade Matthews, they just may need to.

I think Matthews is walking to the Kings in 2024 as Kopitar's contract expires so they have the room, it's a high profile market close to home and a team on the way up with its window opening instead of closing.

Please explain why this isn't logical instead of just "Shut up, McDavid wants out".</div></div>

They could get a decent haul for Tavares without trading away their best player in his early 20s.
Forum: NHLJul. 11 at 12:51 p.m.
Thread: Minimum protection numbers for Kraken Expansion Draft - Can you protect LESS THAN the maximum number? And can you turn that into a trade value??
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Raise28ToTheRafters</b></div><div>A question came up recently concerning the number of players a team can protect in the upcoming Kraken expansion draft. Is it possible to protect <strong><em>less than</em></strong> the maximum number? I know this is probably a rhetorical question, and probably not very likely to happen

For instance, suppose a team is still in the tear-down and rebuild stage. They have plenty of exempt prospects/less than two year pros on the roster, so there is no need to protect them. Plus, they have plenty of older players with bad contracts that they'd like to get rid of. Can the GM protect just five players and leave the rest exposed? (I'm not sure I'd do this as a GM - admit that my team has only 5 players that I'd like to keep, and the rest of the roster is trash - but maybe I was just hired as the new GM and I'm cleaning house).

Now, let's assume that I can protect less than the maximum number, so I have spots available? Can I use that as trade value? Say I make a trade with another team for one of their players that they don't have room to protect but don't want to expose, for say, a 5th round draft choice. I then place that player on my protected list. Once the expansion draft is over, I then trade the acquired player back to his original team, and in return I get my original 5th round pick back, and also their 2nd round draft pick. So, in effect, I am protecting their player for their 2nd round draft pick. Is this possible???

I know this is all highly unlikely, but still, is it possible, within the NHL rules????</div></div>

No GM competent enough to get anywhere near an NHL job would do this.
Forum: NHLApr. 20 at 12:14 a.m.
Thread: Which Signing Was Worse?
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>mondo</b></div><div>Dipietro shouldn't count since it was like 10 years before all the others.

Neal signing felt the most out of place out of these. Eriksson just had 30 goals and 60 points, Skinner just had 40 goals and Lucic was brought in to fill a power forward role and even looked good for a whole season.

James Neal was a secondary contributor to a surprising Knights team. He put up a similar amount of points from his last season, where his former team decided to leave him exposed in the expansion draft because Calle Järnkrok was just too valuable. I don't think that kind of player should get nearly 6 million over 5 years in the declining years of his career.</div></div>

Should be a vote between all the similar bad forward signings of 2016:
Lucic
Okposo
Ladd
Nielsen
Backes
Eriksson