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Forum: Armchair-GM18 hours ago
Thread: Flyers 2024-25
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Jded</b></div><div>I won’t lie, this one loses me a bit, haha. But heck that’s the fun of this, we all have different points of view</div></div>
Let me try a different way: right now we have four elite stars, and if things go our way in the draft, we would have five: Carlsson, Gauthier, McTavish, Zegras, and Celebrini/Levshunov. So if we trade Zegras for high-quality assets, the worst we would be if all of them strike out is back where we are today. But if we don't get one of the two jackpots in the draft, then we have four elite stars, and trading Zegras leaves us worse off than we are now if the trade return doesn't pan out. So that's why I would only trade Zegras if we land Celebrini or Levshunov with our own 2024 first.

To put it another way, I'd rather have Zegras than any two of Catton, Eiserman, Helenius and Lindstrom.
Forum: Armchair-GM22 hours ago
Thread: keeping ghost and kane well also making moves
Fabbri is a 28-year-old 0.5 PPG bottom-6 lame duck at a position where we have a surplus already, Husso is a barely adequate backup, Wallinder is a nice prospect but we have 5 NHL-qualified left-handed defensemen on next season's roster already, and that future second will be of little impact until 2027. It's actually hard to imagine who on our roster we would accept that package for, but it certainly isn't enough for John Gibson <strong>without</strong> 50% retention.

In general, you can't construct reasonably rational trades if your starting point is What spare parts can I afford to give up? and then looking around to see what you'd most like to have from another team, or vice versa. Here, this feels like you started out by asking yourself Who is the goaltender I'd most like to have? and then tried to throw as little value as possible at him.
Forum: Armchair-GM22 hours ago