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DarthCane
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Forum: Armchair-GMSep. 25, 2020 at 1:02 p.m.
Thread: Canes side of a pesce Nylander deal
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>DarthCane</b></div><div>Honestly not sure if Canes are better with Nylander but without Pesce. Maybe, but not sure it's worth the risk. It could work with the right UFA pick up, but Vatanen is not the answer unless he's playing a 3rd line role. The combination of Skjei, Vatanen, Fleury, and Gardiner is not a good mix for bottom 4 blueline. Canes already gave up some of the worst rates of high danger shots in the NHL last season. This blueline would be even lighter on D, especially without a player like Pesce, who makes anyone with him better.

I would do the Kuemper trade. It would be really hard for Canes to let go of that #1 pick, but if they want to win a cup within the next 4 years, this is the right move.</div></div>
Agree on all of that 100%. I’m not really sure I’m in favor of the pesce Nylander trade either I jsut wanted to see what it would look like. I don’t think vatanen is the answer either but he is a guy the organization is familiar with. I disagree with ur assessment that he is only a third pairing guy, but I think the canes would be better served with a more defensive guy
Forum: Armchair-GMSep. 20, 2020 at 7:51 p.m.
Thread: Various ways to trade Nino Gardiner Dzingel
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>tryger</b></div><div>Kings aren't paying a third to take Gardiner(for three years) for Bokk. Every team is up against the cap and only a few teams have the space to take something bad for a year let alone several, payment will need to be steep.</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>DarthCane</b></div><div>Yeah, that's definitely going to be an issue this year. Bokk is in the top tier of Canes prospects, and it was hard to add him to sweeten the deal. I thought Kings might be interested because of Bokk, but also because Gardiner could help with their PP.</div></div>

Gardiner’s contract isn’t such an albatross that the Kings need heavy overpayment to take him, but it’s more along the lines of him not being the guy the Kings are looking for. Kings are looking for a DFD, since they’ve already got the OFD in Doughty. I like Bokk, and certainly would be interested in getting him if the Kings were to package him with Gardiner. There’s several options the Kings would look at beforehand, but I don’t see why they wouldn’t at least circle back to something like this if the other deals fell through.

If the Kings were to acquire Gardiner, he’s a player the Kings could simply leave unprotected for Seattle, since it’s looking like they’ll be leaving guys like Grundstrom unprotected as well, as well as the concern with getting MacDermid games for exposure disperses. Play him on the second pairing with Walker, bump Anderson to the third pairing.
Forum: Armchair-GMSep. 8, 2020 at 3:05 p.m.
Thread: Leafs 2021
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>DarthCane</b></div><div>Anderson for Mrazek is a sort of even trade if you did that alone. They have similar stats overall in past couple years and both in final year of contract.

Pesce gets put on trade talk a lot. But the reason is because we all know that his contract has ridiculous value (same for Slavin). It's not that Pesce is a top 10 blueliner in NHL, but that that value of talent/dollar in his contract is easily in the top 3 for blueliners who are not on entry level deals. In a cap constrained world, these value contracts are especially important for players who are top 6 forwards or top 4 dmen.

That's why a team would have to really overpay for Pesce because they aren't just getting his talent level, they are getting this really affordable contract both in dollars and years. Personally, I think Canes would be crazy to trade him until he's down to one year remaining on his current contract.</div></div>

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