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Forum: Trade Machine ProposalsFeb. 5 at 5:58 p.m.
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Forum: Armchair-GMMay 17, 2023 at 8:51 a.m.
Thread: Kraken Year3
Thanks for the feedback <a href="/users/KrakenTheCode" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@KrakenTheCode</a> and <a href="/users/GMBL" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@GMBL</a>!
I appreciate it's an unlikely deal and maybe something more significant moves the other way from the Kraken roster, but I thought it an interesting addition to ponder if we were in the mix at all.
This year's playoff run was ahead of schedule and I believe Francis will stay the course to build around a long-term future rather than try to augment the current veterans in order to take a tilt with this roster. As such I don't think we trade for Toews as he wouldn't fit the age profile we'd be in the market for, despite being an upgrade on almost all of our current D.
And there's no way Francis hamstrings himself with the Karlsson contract given how he talks about valuing cap space and flexibility, to say nothing of the imbalance that would create in the squad, and the reported disquiet that EK65 supposedly brings to a locker room.
There's movement happening in the forward corps next offseason with Beniers and Tolvanen needing new deals and Eberle and Wennberg reaching UFA, but the Top9 is pretty set this year.
Far more likely this Summer is moves on the back end; Dunn, Borgen, Fleury all need new deals, Schultz has just 1 year left on his, and whilst we've acquired some decent forward prospects in the franchise's early years our pipeline for D is very thin and so a move to get younger that provides in both the short and long term is something I can see us doing.