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Forum: Armchair-GM10 hours ago
Thread: Would CHI consider this
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>FireShanahanTrelivingKeefe</b></div><div>Are you all delusional, you are not going anywhere for a couple of years at least how does a 31 year old fit that plan better then a 24 year old lol .</div></div>

Yes, Lilypad is younger and obviously fits the rebuild window better. But that alone doesn't make this a trade the Hawks "can't refuse". The Hawks do not make this deal. The Hawks need a veteran, stay at home partner on the their 2nd pair to continue mentoring 20 y.o. Kevin Korchinski, former #7 overall pick and future likely top pair guy. And I'm not going to debate Lilypad's ability or upside. But he's not the type of D man the Hawks want to build around on their blue line. They are looking to have a big, physical, hard to play against D - similar to Vegas. And if the Hawks were to make Murphy available at 50% retained with two years left on his deal, the Hawks get better offers than a 1 for 1 swap for Lilypad. So that alone makes it an easy pass for the Hawks.
Forum: Armchair-GM11 hours ago
Forum: Armchair-GMYesterday at 6:31 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMMon. at 1:39 p.m.
Thread: Next Year
lol. I was literally just building an ACGM with almost the same exact proposals. I don't think this is too much at all, though. Something like this coincides with what KD has stated in his exit interview about improving the team, while still maintaining some of the more important guidelines he has laid out for the rebuild over the last two years.

Aside from Pesce (which is far too much salary and term, imo) you have brought in some veteran players on short term deals, made the NHL club more competitive, created roster competition for the young guys who may or may not need more development time in the AHL (and are still waiver exempt and shouldn't just be handed roster spots), and brings in more/higher-quality draft capital. All while bringing in more guys who are not injury prone, and who, presumably, are only worried about themselves and their next contracts. They are all guys who can motivate a locker room, take orders and play within a system, and are great team first guys, aside from maybe Mikheyev.

I think as far as Mikheyev goes, though, I would rather just re-sign Anderson. We don't NEED the extra 2nd round pick and Anderson has been fantastic. And for Pesce, I think for $6.5 x 5, we can probably do better than him, or just do something shorter term. Not that he isn't serviceable, but he has shown signs of decline and 5 years is a long time, especially for that amount. That contract has some potential to look pretty bad pretty quickly.
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Forum: Armchair-GMSun. at 9:03 a.m.