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Richy
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Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 30, 2017 at 8:17 p.m.
Thread: Slow but steady..
1. No to Moore and Thornton contract. I don't think Jumbo Joe wants to come back to Boston and someone will offer him more.

2. The Pasta deal is close, but I think you're about $600k too high. The Spooner deal makes my stomach turn as he's no where near worth $4 million a season. He's worth $3 max and that is pushing it.

On the trades....

1. Miller + crap doesn't = Zucker. I will say though, Zucker is coming off a career year (most players on Minny are) so I'd be curious if he's the potential 50pt player he showed this season or the mid 20pt player he's been in years past

2. Beleskey has a modified NTC, he can't stop VGK from taking him in the draft. His only power is if he's traded and even then he can only block so many teams. I like the idea, but from listening to the B's presser I don't see them offering picks to get rid of him. If he goes, he goes, but Sweeney isn't going to force it.

3. Krejci has a full NMC and wouldn't waive to go to the Islander. He's made it known that his intentions are to finish out his NHL career in Boston and after his contract is up he'll return home to finish he's hockey career.
Forum: NHL TradesApr. 30, 2017 at 7:31 p.m.
Thread: Trading the Sedins
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Bosronto_Maple_Bruins</b></div><div>I see why you'd want them to retire as canucks, but its kind of sad to think of them retiring 2 years down the road after 2 years of wallowing in the depths of a rebuild.
Great analysis DragonRaptorHybrid, you seem to really know your stuff, and I'd agree that the Panthers look to be a good fit for them. Looking at the Panthers depth at forward they didn't seem to miss Johnathan Huberdeau last year when he was hurt and with Barkov/Bjugstad/Trocheck I think they can afford to give up some of their younger talent (Especially with his $5.9 mil cap hit).
For the Canucks a Horvat/Huberdeau 1-2 punch would be incredible, and although the Panthers AHL unit doesn't have huge depth, targeting a low risk/high reward talent like Dryden Hunt and a young d man (Downing) along with picks sounds like you're getting close to a deal. I doubt the return would be much more than that from anyone else due to the money they're both owed</div></div>

I just think that they should finish their careers where they have played for so long. Also they will never waive their NMCs.
Forum: NHL TradesApr. 30, 2017 at 6:38 p.m.
Thread: Trading the Sedins
Well, the Canucks can only retain half-salary on one of the Sedins, since 2 salary retention spots have been taken up by Jannik Hansen and Roberto Luongo, so that's $10.5M you're talkin' about that's being moved.

Trading them as rentals would be difficult; most contenders don't have the cap space to do it as is, and they'll have even less cap space when the trade deadline rolls around. If you're not concerned about getting them to a contender, then you're looking at the teams with the most cap space as of now.

- The Jets would obviously like to contend. Chris Thorburn and Ondřej Pavelec come off the books this season for an additional $5.1M in cap space, putting them at $61.5M, but then Connor Hellebuyck's cap hit will get bumped up to the $3M to $3.5M range (as seems to be typical for young-ish goalies, à la Matt Murray and (kinda) Jacob Markström), so that raises the original estimate up to $63.5M. Add in $10.5M for the Sedins, and you're at $74M. Not very feasible. The Jets have committed money to their top-end talent already.

- The Panthers: Brad Boyes' buyout, Reto Berra, Jakub Kindl, one of Mark Pysyk or Alex Petrovic (based on the results of the expansion draft), maybe Jaromír Jágr, and maybe Thomas Vanek come off the books. That's a total of ~$10.7M. So that could work. They want to contend in the Atlantic Division, which is fairly weak, TBH, and the Sedins could give them insane forward depth. Who doesn't like living in South Florida? Plus, not many of their AHL players that they're high on (Dryden Hunt and Jayce Hawryluk, in particular) look to make the NHL next year, so there're roster spots for the Sedins.
But the Panthers are sparse on assets to give back to the Canucks. The Canucks don't want Jared McCann back, that's for sure, but they'd be looking at the Panthers' forward talent (again, Juolevi + Brisebois + Subban = great defensive pipeline). Maybe a trade centered around one of Adam Mascherin or Henrik Borgström would be feasible; the Panthers' core consists of a lot of players of ages 26 and under, so they're all in their primes. They've already traded away a recent 1st-round pick, though, in Lawson Crouse, before they had a chance to really evaluate him; they may be gun-shy about doing so with Mascherin or Borgström.

- The Hurricanes have the cap space. I'm concerned about the sheer number of forwards they have in their system, though. Julien Gauthier, Andrew Poturalski, Lucas Wallmark, Philip Di Giuseppe, Aleksi Saarela, Nicolas Roy, Steven Lorentz, Warren Foegele, and Spencer Smallman will all be new NHL players competing for a roster spot, and at least a few of these players will be good enough to make the NHL out of training camp. Where do the Sedins play? The sheer number of forward prospects does mean that the Hurricanes can give up one or two to the Canucks for the Sedins, but I don't know if the Sedins are enough to push them over the edge into playoff contention like with the Panthers.

- The Devils have the space and probably the roster spots. Taking on the Sedins' contracts would move them in the direction of their 2014-15 roster, though, where they relying on waaaaaaay too many old guys (Patrik Eliáš, Scott Gomez, Steve Bernier, Jágr, Martin Havlát, Dainius Zubrus, and Mike Cammalleri) to produce offense. They're trying to get younger; the Sedins do nothing for them in that regard, and giving up prospects for age 35+ players is counterintuitive for them.

Yeah, I think there's something there with the Panthers, honestly, and possibly the Hurricanes.