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Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 8 at 8:37 a.m.
Thread: Ideal
Pretty much none of this is truly ideal for Washington. The caps would be selling low for no reason on Dowd, TvR, Lindgren, and Bear, when they still have the cap space for at least two of them in this scenario, and it's especially not worthwhile to trade Dowd for scraps when his replacement is Tierney. On the other side, the Oshie trade is an overpayment by Tampa and it won't happen anyway, since Oshie has a modified NTC and wants to finish his career in Washington. The Markstrom trade makes little sense to Washington as they would be replacing Lindgren with a more expensive and older goaltender in Markstrom with similar stats, so there's no use throwing away Lindgren just to spend a 1st on someone with what I can only explain as "name brand" value. Brodie and Timmins aren't too enticing either, Alexeyev has been a good 3LD which makes Brodie unnecessary, and Washington isn't foolish enough to trade a defenseman to Toronto for peanuts just to turn around and then send more to the Leafs for another defenseman when they can just keep Van Riemsdyk who is already a reliable option. Finally, 6.75 for Stephenson would be high risk for a player who's a half a point per game this season, and doesn't really make sense when you factor that the Caps are paying less for Strome and that it forces DC to put Miroshnichenko on the 4th line, which makes no sense for his development.
Forum: Trade Machine ProposalsApr. 2 at 10:34 p.m.
Forum: NHL TradesApr. 1 at 2:15 p.m.
Thread: (WSH/CAR) - Kuznetsov for 2025 3rd (CAR)
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Wilson_W_Wilson_Jr</b></div><div>I proposed a trade last summer, its on my page, involving Edmundson, Kuznetsov ( with 50% retention), and a 2nd round pick going to Toronto, in return for significantly more than a 3rd round pick.

A Capitals fan responded to me with, "Caps say no based on the retention alone lol"

This guy and someone else liked that comment.

I'll say it again, enjoy your 3rd round pick.</div></div>

I wonder what could've changed within the last year...

Your whole notion is that they attempted to "maximize" value when that straight up isn't true. Me liking a post from a year ago doesn't magically mean Washington had decided to "maximize" value, unless you're so clueless you think I am Brian MacLellan. Did you even read what I said? Or were you too cowardly to even do that?
Forum: NHL TradesApr. 1 at 9:31 a.m.
Thread: (WSH/CAR) - Kuznetsov for 2025 3rd (CAR)
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Wilson_W_Wilson_Jr</b></div><div>Not long ago, Washington and their fans were looking for a 1st rounder and more for Kuznetsov, like significantly more.

Washington will also be retaining 50% of this salary, because of how poorly their management team handled this situation.

Kuznetsov has been looking for a trade for years to get out of this situation, and Washington thought that they could capitalize to the max, and failed.


Enjoy your 3rd round pick, while paying half of his salary, next year included.


The fact that people think this is a win for Washington is funny.

I hope Kuznetsov lights it up for Carolina in the playoffs and all of next year.</div></div>

This is not true in the slightest. Washington didn't trade the guy for years because they felt he could still be a meaningful contributor, not due to some idea of "maximizing value". While he had been reportedly asking for a trade, he had put up a point per game season in 2021-22 and had been one of Washington's biggest contributors in the playoffs that year. He wasn't traded because he still brought value to the team, not to mention that he was well loved in the locker room and by pretty much anyone not named either Peter Laviolette or Brian MacLellan. When fans were pitching a trade for him at the end of 2021-22 (when the reports really first came out that he was unhappy in Washington), they wanted a 1st or more because it was worth it, but fan reaction means nothing, just look at the majority of fans that wanted everything not tied down to be traded. Washington was trying to contend so of course they would want to hold onto a player like Kuznetsov for as long as possible to give him every possible chance to return to form and be a top tier player, not to get better value in a trade. The Capitals have been trying to be a playoff team for the last 15 years now, so the notion that they were just trying to "maximize" value on Kuznetsov is foolish.