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Forum: Armchair-GMMay 7, 2019 at 12:11 a.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 4, 2019 at 1:50 p.m.
Thread: New look Pens with a load of future retooling moves
some of these deals make a ton of sense, other ones are kinda ridiculous, others could use a bit of adjusting.

Im not a person that is that in favor of trading malkin, if they were to trade him it would be this type of deal however. Plus even if they did want to trade him, would he go somewhere else. He has the final decision. I don't think there is much chance he gets traded.

If they trade kessel you got to get a better return than that. Drop the picks going to Arizona and have them add a bit more going back to Pittsburgh.

The deal that you are flipping trouba right over to the rangers is a bit puzzling to me. So its overall basically malkin for Shattenkirk, ehlers, and a late 1st. I guess if you cant keep Trouba longer term it wouldn't be terrible especially since NY would be paying for half of Shattenkirk but.

Just straight up don't like the florida deal. No reason for the penguins to do that. Gudbranson played pretty well after coming over, not gonna trade him for a backup goalie that would be making similar salary.

The Toronto deal is interesting. Could help out both teams, however I don't like the salary retention. 1 for 1 is fine but not at 50% retention.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 30, 2019 at 8:26 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 25, 2019 at 12:22 a.m.
Thread: Between cleanout day and draft day
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>pharrow</b></div><div>I have never once stated trading Phil would be easy. But they aren't moving him unless there is a real return and how to quantify that return is the problem.
A bubble team like AZ isn't going to give up two 1st. Even a trade to a team like Nashville, isn't likely. Most of the ACGM trades on here between the two really don't give a great return.
And that's the problem in trading Kessel. You got a PPG player, on a very low contract (thanks again toronto the curse of the hotdog still lives on), and there is a NMC, while he's a aging player.

There is really one 1 "bad" year on that contract. The last year. The rest of the years shouldn't be all to bad. Good players can play well in their early 30s so the next two years are just fine He'll only be 33.
He's got at least two high scoring quality years left. The question is what is that worth and to whom.</div></div>

im not even certain if he will be traded at all, if he does get traded I think there is a few likely destinations with Arizona or Nashville being higher on the list. I agree most of the deals I have seen for Kessel isn't nearly enough coming back. He is a star player who has a few very good seasons left and as you pointed out Toronto is still paying part of his salary which wasn't too outrageous at todays cap hits anyway.
wherever he goes the return should be high, what form it takes(more current players with only a bit of futures, or more futures with a bit less current players) is to be seen.
Forum: NHL TradesApr. 23, 2019 at 8:30 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 22, 2019 at 5:20 p.m.
Thread: Johnny Hockey
this is a pretty interesting idea. And not horrible either. I would have ZAR in the starting lineup.

I don't know if I would do the Ottawa deal, but I guess you need somebody a bit cheaper than Bjugstad due to the other moves against the cap. So either making cheaper signings or getting retention or having to trade somebody for a slightly cheaper replacement(in this case Bjugstad)

I think the Winnipeg one is pretty good for both teams.

The one with the biggest risk/reward however seems to be the Calgary one. If those two click with Malkin(like when Neal was with Pittsburgh before) that could be an absolute killer second line. So even though you are giving up a few very good players it would be worth it. However Neal had a very poor year, players have down years but if it was not a fluke that is a huge negative to take on. So its very risky but could be fantastic.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 22, 2019 at 2:56 p.m.
Thread: Bless this Mess
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Boush</b></div><div>The Caps gave the Avs their new starting goaltender and Orpik for a 2nd round pick, and Orpik was immediately bought out. General wisdom had Grubi going for a 1st - so Orpik depressed the value of the other piece in the trade and still ended up being bought out immediately because he was unwanted (or more likely there was collusion in getting him back to the Caps on a cheaper deal without the Caps having to be the ones buying him out).</div></div>

I find it tough to believe there wasn't any type of collusion going on, idk how the league allowed it. But yeah Orpik brought down the value of the return somewhat(but not a ton), in exchange the caps saved I think it was 4million of cap space. That is more than Johnsons aav. So in theory it would be even easier to get rid of Johnson that the orpik trade since it is less money for the other team to take on.