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Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 5, 2022 at 12:57 p.m.
Thread: if rangers actually lose their minds and trade Laf
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>NHLfan10506</b></div><div>Who is trading Nick Suzuki for Lafreniere? If that was a viable trade, Rangers would have done it months ago.
I'd say Laf + Nils + 1st probably = Suzuki</div></div>

Hmm not sure about this. I had this argument just prior the season so I asked a hockey community and this was the poll results :

Alexis Lafreniere vs Nick Suzuki
Discussion in 'Polls - (hockey-related only)' started by Xspyrit, Oct 11, 2021.

Who do you think has more trade value?

Alexis Lafreniere
102 vote(s) 63.8%

Nick Suzuki
25 vote(s) 15.6%

Habs fan - Nick Suzuki
9 vote(s) 5.6%

Habs fan - Alexis Lafreniere
15 vote(s) 9.4%

Rangers fan - Alexis Lafreniere
9 vote(s) 5.6%

Rangers fan - Nick Suzuki 0 vote(s) 0.0%



Lafreniere is still 20 y/o and was a recent 1st OA pick. It would be VERY RISKY to give up on him this early. You'd have to be pretty convinced that he will not figure it out

Look at what Dorion did with Zibanejad. He traded the 23 y/o 50 pts center right away when he became GM in 2016. Zibby finally broke out at 25 y/o and look at him now.

Suzuki is also still young and will continue to grow but IMO he plays a very mature game already and doesn't have a ton of untapped potential left. I see him as a good 2-way 65 pts center, could be a great #2 C on a contender.
Forum: Armchair-GMOct. 2, 2020 at 10:11 a.m.
Thread: OEL trade that JB should only accept
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>DiehardRedWingsFan58</b></div><div>First off it's a lousy offer, And you honestly think that Bill Armstrong is retaining that much for 7 years on Ekman-Larsson. Deal needs to be far better then that.</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>mbaer84</b></div><div>He wants a 1st and wants to get out of this contract. Look at it this way, that first will cost 8mil.</div></div>

If AZ is in as bad financial shape as I think they are, they might well have to go this route: retain $8M + take back Eriksson's $5M ($13M total) + get a mid-1st in order to get out of the massive $54M obligation that is OEL. It saves them over $40M and they get a 1st... IMO that's probably all they can expect to get this offseason.

Of course he's going to ask for more right now, but as the summer wears on the ask will come down to something more realistic like this.