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Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 3, 2023 at 9:00 a.m.
Thread: Going all in for now and later
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>PeteIsles68</b></div><div>We're essentially paying Mayfield, Bailey, Bolduc, Ishakov, plus a 1st and two 2nds for Chycrun?.... and a throw away 4th line free agent?

That effectively strips the AHL club, and with the Horvat trade, leaves us with only 2 picks in the first two rounds out of the next three drafts...... for a guy who is going to be a second pair defenseman?</div></div>

Mayfield is an expiring contract that we probably aren’t planning on resigning, and the trade gets us a 1st Round pick that isn’t our own to spend on a younger and signi better defenseman to pair with Dobson, which probably becomes our top pair. Moving Bailey’s contract is going to cost a 2nd no matter what, if not more. Moving Buldoc and Ishakov isn’t a huge deal because Bolduc won’t have a place in the line up with Pelech/Chychrun/Romanov, and the organization seems hesitant to give Ishakov a shot at the NHL because of his size. The second 2nd is a few years out, and is there to make sure we get the trade done. It’s really not an insane set of trades.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 8, 2022 at 10:39 p.m.
Thread: Pasta
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Isles10</b></div><div>I wouldn’t do the Paštrnák trade, the value doesn’t add up, Beauvillier’s been a very good top-6 forward for years, except this one, but he’s still young and will likely bounce back next season under Lambert. Same with Wahlström, I believe he’s going to take huge steps next season with a coach that doesn’t hate him and throw him under the bus to the media every chance he gets and play him 6 minutes a night with grinders and no pp-time + he’s still got potential to be a 30-35 goal scorer with excellent all-around play. Aatu Räty’s ceiling is definitely a very good 2nd center or better. - and the 13th overall pick will likely fetch a future top-6 player i.e. Brad Lambert or a Jonathan Lekkerimäki, Danila Yurov etcetera. Paštrnák is one of the best wingers in the NHL for sure, but not worth it imo.</div></div>

Oh, I’m personally all about Kevin Fiala, and I’m not even someone who thinks we should be trying to get Chyckryn at this point, as I would probably go with Oliver Kylington instead as I did here. I only put this roster together to see what the cap implications would be, and had to publish it to share it with some buddies for their thoughts.
Forum: Armchair-GMAug. 28, 2021 at 12:07 a.m.
Thread: Lunch thoughts
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>sensibleguy</b></div><div>Not even close for Ottawa</div></div>

I would be willing to increase the value going back the other way, say by adding a Bolduc.

The notion that the Isles have completely tanked Bellows value though, I think is completely overblown. Has it dropped? Sure, but the team has arguably the second best team the last two years, is a team run by two of the most conservative coach/gm in the league when it comes to rookies, and is a defense above literally everything team.

This was also based on a recent article out of Ottawa that the Sens are looking for a Forward, and would be looking to offer Brannstrom, a player with a negligible number of additional NHL games over Bellows. Also, let’s not kid ourselves, Bellows would be a roster player already on basically half the teams in the league. He has a great shot, but he is figuring for a roster spot on a very deep roster, and with a coach/GM that have extremely short leashes for Rookies. Put him on an offense focused roster, and the points will come.