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Lightman13

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Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 13 at 5:06 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 7 at 7:34 p.m.
-Agree with the Avs fans upthread - the deal seems fine a vacuum, but moving Johansen out with retention doesn't save them any cap space - and now they have a hole at 3C. I think the deal would work if there was no retention on Colorado's end, because they could then go poking around to see what they could get to fill Johansen's spot with the $1.9M in cap savings.

-The way Vatrano is playing, I think he gets back a 1st + a solid prospect on his own. Add in a year and a half retention, and the price goes up. This is a starting point but there needs to be another solid asset added in, imo.

-It's okay, I guess? Ottawa probably doesn't care about Leschyshyn, but again, feels like a decent jumping off point that could be fair value if the market for Tarasenko doesn't coalesce.

-I don't know why Minnesota would do this one. Middleton is a very solid middle-pair guy on a relatively affordable salary that would probably bring back a strong return if they made him available, and I would say the Wild have three LHD currently in their system that are younger and have more upside than Zac Jones at this point. Feels like an easy pass for the Wild.

-Sharks pass extremely easily. Retaining on Sturm would tie up their last remaining retention slot for this year and next - if you're going to ask a team in a rebuild to do that, you better be offering a hell of a lot more than just a 5th rounder. And that's honestly before you get to Sturm - not gonna act like he's a superstar or anything, but he's a strong defensive player who's won more than 60% of his faceoffs this year - he'd easily bring back a 4th rounder on his own.
Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 7 at 7:43 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMJan. 29 at 1:06 p.m.