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Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 5 at 6:20 p.m.
Thread: Fock It
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Zizz1262</b></div><div>Your delusional man. Buch would get Necas +..And if your talking Kryou than your talking Jersperi K, that Big LD prospect you have, and a 1st.</div></div>

Nikishin? Brother, your organization does not have anything worth him. Necas is more valuable than rental Buch because of the prolonged control. You know you're getting an extension with Necas, you don't know that with Buch. They're similar in terms of production, but Necas is the better skater and much younger. Yes, Buch is better defensively, but again, that control gives Necas more value. I could see Carolina adding to Necas and Kotkaniemi for Thomas or Kyrou, I'm not saying this would be the package for it. But Nikishin won't be involved. The 1st, probably the Philly second we get back when we win the cup, and another minor piece. If Nikishin wasn't available for EP40, he wasn't on the table for Guentzel, why would Kyrou or Thomas get him?
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 5 at 12:51 p.m.
Thread: Random Idea
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>mokumboi</b></div><div>To be fair, his value is on a sliding scale, depending on the team. To the Blues specifically, he'd be closer to buy low than negative, but as the moniker let's on, it would need to be a low buy. In theory, Carolina gets something out of him leaving, too, and teams know this.</div></div>

So, yes and no. You're right, Carolina would get cap space. but the problem is that he's just better than guys like Drury or the relic of Jordan Staal. It makes more sense to move Staal on, give Aho the captaincy since he already deserves it, and let Kotkaniemi play in a consistent third line role that he really has not been able to play in since he arrived in Carolina. That was the plan when he signed the offer sheet. Let him take the Staal spot. But Rod threw a tantrum about not having Staal around like he did for Martinook years ago, and now it's biting the front office in the backside. I think in an ideal world, Staal retires after the Canes win the cup, and the Canes have 0 issues keeping Kotkaniemi.

Let me put this a different way. Carolina have no reason to be looking to move him. Getting Jarvis and Necas done will be easy since they are RFA's, and Aho was locked up before the season started. Everything else can be done with KK on the roster and it's not worth losing him to bring back someone like Teuvo, or Pesce. Guentzel depends on term because I don't want to see him here until he's 37. But everyone else, I'd just rather have Kotkaniemi, purely on the age basis
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 5 at 12:40 p.m.
Thread: Random Idea
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>StDetroitBlueWings</b></div><div>So getting rid of Brind'Amour is the best move? And how would getting rid of Staal help at all? Not a big cap hit so doesn't create much flexibility and just move him down the lineup instead if you want to move KK up. Just him being a healthy scratch is a major red flag. No one is going to willingly PAY for that. Look at other ACGMs. They're attaching picks to just get rid of KK for FC</div></div>

Brind'amour's deal is up. Simply don't extend him. Staal's been a ghost, and he's got a 2.9m cap hit. He's 36, and there is no reason to keep him anymore. Aho's become captain in all but name, and he just takes up a roster spot that Kotkaniemi (or even Drury) could fill in while being more than a decade younger. Look at other ACGM's, they're PAYING for KK. He's a buylow candidate, not a negative asset.