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Forum: Armchair-GMAug. 29, 2018 at 4:54 p.m.
Thread: HABS 2018-2019 with some changes i've seen floating around!
I like everything except I feel the Pacioretty trade is a little overly complicated for nothing.

If the goal is simply to get Theodore, lets remove Tatar and Lehkonen from the deal all together. (This is assuming Vegas wants to move theodore which i don't think they do but lets pretend they do and are interested in Pacioretty)

Theodore
2nd

for

Pacioretty
Reilly
3rd


I think adding Tatar is overkill considering they paid a 1st,2nd and 3rd for him just last year and I think moving Lehkonen right now is unwise. He's flirted with something special this past year but just couldn't get it going due to health and a silly low SH%. And even luck factor! Anyone who watched the games last year must of noticed the repeated posts and highlight reel saves the goalies made against especially him and even Pacioretty last year. Both guys were snake bitten and all that could of went wrong, did. They just need the slightest change in luck to see them produce. Lehkonen is cheap and poised for a breakout season. Not 30 goals but 20 is absolutely attainable for him.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 25, 2018 at 10:11 a.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 25, 2018 at 9:29 a.m.
Thread: All in for 2019
Carlson is RH, but this just involves shifting the D around...
OEL - Weber
Mete - Carlson
Emelin - Juulsen
Riley
Much better d-corps than we had last season...

Having said that...
No way OEL gets dealt for that package. ARZ will want more youth and term than Pacioretty (Galchenyuk?)... and that's just to start. I have a hard time believing they'll part with their franchise d-man while getting back a problem in Galchenyuk (or 1 year of Pacioretty coming off a bad season), a cap problem in Shaw who is also injured, and a 2nd rd pick. I think Galchenyuk is a good start, as is the 2nd round pick. But you'll need a really good 3rd asset to get OEL from ARZ, and not an expensive one either. I'm thinking it costs you Poehling. Even then, I'm not sure that's enough.

Alzner, Benn, Schlemko, Petry are all salary dumps... I get that. What ever we get back in return will be gravy.

I don't understand they need to trade Lehkonen for a draft pick? With all these moves, we are getting many expensive players in the lineup, why not hold on to a relatively inexpensive player in Lehkonen? He's good for 15-20 goals while making less than 1M$/yr.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 24, 2018 at 11:07 a.m.
Thread: '' Retool " 2 years
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>IslesFan9</b></div><div>Giving 7 million on top of assets for a guy who put up less than 40 points last season probably isn't a good idea.</div></div>

Dude he had 1 bad season in the past 7 years. There are so many players who have had bad years only to have stud years afterwards. Remember Eric Staal's 13 goal year? Remember Giroux's 58 and Kopitar's 52 points last season?

If Pacioretty was all over the place scoring 30,15,22,19,31,12 than ok maybe but the guy has literally scored at a 30 goal pace since his first full season in the NHL. Hell with no injury this year he still could of hit high 20's...........in the worst season of his career.........without a #1 center.......on a team that can't score much.

Pacioretty has earned the right to have a mulligan year. Anyone who watched the Habs this year can see this team was absolutely terrible and hampered with injuries to all their key players. What was he supposed to do? Put up career numbers?
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 24, 2018 at 11:34 a.m.
Thread: '' Retool " 2 years
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>IslesFan9</b></div><div>Paying for what a guy has done vs what a guy will do is everything wrong with being a GM. If he is going to be so good why trade him for lotto picks?

Again coming off injury, a down season and the wrong side of 30. Why invest 7 million dollars in a guy when other guys need to paid. We just made this mistake with Ladd. We don’t need to do it again.</div></div>

Because you always have to pay for what a guy did previously. There is no way of knowing what a guy will do in the future. But if it is a matter of risk management, Pacioretty's track record speaks for itself. For all of one season he has been an elite goal scorer. There's more reason to think he'll continue to score at a high or close to rate for a long while. Staal is 33 and scored 40+....... even if Paciorett slows down at 33, 20-30 goals is still a good pace.

Its all about risk management. Pacioretty may not score another 30 goal season in his career just like Bellows may end up being another Dal Colle....... Nothings for sure but based off what we've seen you can make educated guesses.

Regardless Im not saying the Isles should trade for Pacioretty but 7M is not a big ask for a guy in top 10 in NHL goal scoring the past 7 years and counting. As i said in the previous comment, plenty of guys have had bad years to only break out with big season the year after. All those guys were older than Pacioretty is now by the way.