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Forum: Armchair-GMMay 30, 2023 at 8:19 a.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 25, 2023 at 1:24 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 29, 2023 at 2:38 p.m.
Thread: The cost of Dubois
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>OilersRule</b></div><div>Trading anything for Dubois is ridiculous.

This team is still not a playoff contender in the east for 2023-24.

So giving up assets to have Dubois now, AND burn a year off his contract with another lackluster season, doesn't make much sense.

Drouin is awful and Hughes should be fired if he considers re-signing him AND playing him at C, Dvorak is a better keep at 3C.

Moving that Florida pick would be a bad idea, especially with Sandin-pellikka or Wood projected around there, keep the pick, stock the system, sign Dubois in FA, then figure out the goaltending situation.</div></div>


What no one talks about if if they trade for him the Habs lose leverage in negotiations and pld can ask for whatever dollar figure he wants.

It makes a lot more sense in a rebuild to go without the quick fix and if he really wants to go to Montreal then sign a reasonable deal as a free agent.

Giving up the Florida pick isn’t needed.

Chevy can trade Pld for a late 1st and mid prospect at the deadline. Habs won’t care as they don’t need Dubois with so much depth down the middle for the future and an option at signing him as a free agent.

They sign him, great, otherwise they are well on track to be competitive in 3 years

It makes no sense blowing up the rebuild. But Jets fans that think he’s worth this massive package including A prospects and a top15 pick aren’t thinking about compromise and have no clue about leverage dynamics
Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 23, 2023 at 4:14 p.m.
Thread: Keller
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Capitalfail67</b></div><div>thats a massive haul for him lol.

10-12oa in a deep draft
high end center prospect
high end RSD prospect
another top 50 pick

its Clayton Keller... hes a ppg player on a fair to good contract dont glorify him lol</div></div>

Perhaps my previous comment was misleading. It is not a drastic overpayment, and that would be what it takes to pry Keller out. PPG winger on one of the worst teams in the league, on a bargain bin contract with 5 years remaining starting next year, and more than likely to be the next captain of the Yotes, that offer is a lowball.

You say that Lapierre is a high end C prospect. Just as a comparable, he isn’t better than Ryan Suzuki, and Suzuki isn’t considered to be a “high end C prospect”. I am a fan of Lapierre, but he is not as high end as you believe him to be. Plus, C is the last position Arizona would go for, considering they have Cooley and Geekie in the pipeline, Hayton with the Yotes, and I won’t rule out the possibility that a big name C ends up signing there within the next couple of years. As for what I have seen from Iorio, which hasn’t been that much, he is a bit more of a mystery Wild card to me. Besides, Keller is one of their biggest revenue generators. Unless a team is reaching into their untouchable purse, there is no reason for the Yotes to sell Keller.
Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 23, 2023 at 2:27 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 14, 2023 at 3:56 p.m.
Thread: How We Could Have Managed Assets And Cap Better
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>OilersRule</b></div><div>Time will tell, I don't see McCabe trending well on a team that focuses on speed and mobility, Sandin was likely a better long term option, and 4 LHD with your only RHD being Lil and Timmins doesn't bode well unless one of them really shows they are ready to ride bigger minutes.

Marner and Tavares should be enough to keep you out of the basement, but with teams like Montreal/Ottawa/Detroit/Buffalo with young high end prospects, they can easily leap the Leafs.

And I disagree, you can blame the players, but the GM hasn't exactly put them in a position to win, they needed a goalie, Toronto fans went full re***d thinking Murray was going to be a saviour, and it's been total trash with him having an occasional good game between his half dozen times he's been on IR, he's made no real concerted effort to address the D weakness, it's reclamation projects, and that's only this season.</div></div>

Honestly the issues TOR are dealing with now are self-inflicted. We insisted on keeping guys like Holl, Kerfoot &amp; Engvall while making a trade for Murray who’s expensive and been below average for 3 straight years when we could’ve used that 12 million to get a top 6 F like Bjorkstrand and a top 4 D (even taking on McCabe’s full cap hit without giving up a first or moving Sandin). We are too loyal to guys who don’t fit the system or are straight up not competing at NHL level.