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Forum: Armchair-GMThu at 1:23 pm
Thread: Turcotte for SuzukiDanaultand a 1st round pick
This is a wonderfully thought-provoking idea!

Best case scenario for the Kings:

Suzuki replaces Kopitar
Danault replaces Carter
The first becomes a top-4 defenseman in 2024-2025

Worst-case scenario:

Suzuki becomes a third-line center
The first becomes the next Jake Virtanen or Nick Ritchie
Turcotte becomes the next Elias Pettersson

The unaddressed snag in this proposal is that because the 2020 draft is in Montreal, the first-round pick has to be in 2021. I think that factor plus the inherent risk in having to have three things go right for "success" as opposed to one (Turcotte becoming a star) tips this one into the No category for the Kings. Plus, as <a href="/users/F50marco" target="_blank">@F50marco</a> says, Montreal needs high-quality defensemen, not forwards.

But this idea is well worth a lot of analysis and discussion!!
Forum: Armchair-GMThu at 12:58 pm
Thread: Perfect situation for Pitt - Pens and Devils fans thoughts
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>CHUG</b></div><div>I see what you're saying, my entire point though was that there would be enough room to resign him</div></div>

I've done a construction based upon the simpler premise that Hall just signs in Pittsburgh as a free agent for $78MM ($11,142,857 x 7). Here's what that would require:

1. buying out Johnson (no problem)
2. trading Gudbranson (probably do-able)
3. trading one of Bjugstad or Rust (possible)
4. re-signing Murray at $6.5MM or less (possible)
5. re-signing Pettersson for less than $4MM (possible)
6. re-signing Kahun and Simon for an aggregate of $3MM or less (quite possible)
7. letting Galchenyuk and McCann walk (is Hall &gt; Galchenyuk and McCann?)
8. letting Schultz walk (apparently, a foregone conclusion)

As you can see, although most if not all of the steps are within reason, it still would take a lot of things to fall into place to do this comfortably.
Forum: Armchair-GMThu at 12:39 pm
Thread: Trading Forward Depth For Defensive Depth
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>ClockReads2113</b></div><div>Ugh how many times do I have to have this conversation. Johnson is horribly bad, this is why they are trying to trade him. If all it took to trade Johnson was depth defensemen and 3rd don't you think it would have happened by now? You aren't moving Johnson without a 1st or Hallander attached.</div></div>

Okay, "Johnson is horribly bad." Assuming that's true (which is in dispute because he seems to have played reasonably well for the Pens the first few games of the season), then Sullivan can put him in the press box -- for the entire season, if necessary.

Now if you want to argue that his contract is heavily burdensome, which is why he should be moved, that argument fails, too. JJ can be bought out next year for a total cap hit of $2MM, including the player (Riikola, for $833,333) to replace him. That saves Pittsburgh $1.25MM off the cap at no cost to Pittsburgh. Why should the Pens pay a high price to escape that result? To put it another way, why should Pittsburgh expend a first-round draft pick to save $1,166,667 (Johnson's buy-out cap hit for two years)?

The only reason people like me were suggesting in the off-season that Pittsburgh would have to expend a significant asset to unload Johnson and his contract was their cap problem before the season started. Once Rust was injured, and could be placed on LTIR, that premise evaporated. Now there is absolutely no economic need to move Johnson at all. In short, his contract is not the millstone around Rutherford's neck that Loui Eriksson's is around Jim Benning's.
Forum: Armchair-GMWed at 12:30 pm
Thread: try this lineup
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Bf3351</b></div><div>Thank you sir. The only people I would approve of being traded right now is Forbort as always:) and Lewis. I don't really want to trade Lewis, but like you said Grundstrom needs playing time. That would let Amadio or Lizotte take the 4C spot and Grundstrom get 3rd or 2nd line minutes. It's too soon to trade anyone else in my opinion.

I don't ever want to trade Clifford, I think they will sign him another 3 or 4 years. He is barely 28(people forget that) and he has adapted to the way the game has changed incredibly well.

What do you think about Wagner? I love him he is a perfect modern day 4th liner in my opinion.</div></div>

I've been impressed with what I've seen of Wagner. Ben Hutton has been good, too.

Like it or not, the guy I would trade is Tyler Toffoli. He would bring the best return and also create the playing space. I'd hate to lose him, but it's a hard decision that has to be made if this team is going to pull itself out of the bottom tier.
Forum: Armchair-GMWed at 12:21 pm
Thread: What to do when all the d are back
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Barbs</b></div><div>I'm going to defer to the Ducks fan on this one. Aside from a team that's had their D completely gutted (like Winnipeg) I don't think there's much interest in Ristolainen. He's basically Cody Ceci but can score on the powerplay (but that might just be because of the supporting cast)

I know that Kase is likely Anaheim's best forward so I think the cost would be pretty high to acquire him</div></div>

The only guy I can see Anaheim trading Kase for is Brett Pesce (and Carolina needs a top-flight right-handed forward), but I can't see the Hurricanes letting go of Pesce. Maybe Ryan Pulock on the Island.

Anaheim might deal from extra strength at LD (Guhle, Larsson, Mahura) or RW (Sherwood, Sprong, Terry), but I don't think that the Ducks would be willing to go higher on the depth chart right now. Management really wants to find out how the youngsters are developing while keeping the first-line core (Rakell, Kase, Silfverberg, Steel, Lundestrom, Comtois, Fowler, Lindholm, Manson, Gibson) intact. I think that the Ducks would also wait a year (or at least until the trade deadline) to trade good depth players like Henrique, Ritchie, Shore, Grant and Rowney.