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Forum: Armchair-GMTue. at 12:59 p.m.
Thread: DRAFT IGINLA WITH TRADE UP FOR EISERMAN PLUS TSYPLAKOV SIGNING AND DUBOIS TRADE
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>tryger</b></div><div>We aren't pumped on him, it's clear they aren't buying him out and Blake can't take a loss on the contract as his job hinges on it. The Kings can't afford to retain $2M a year for 7 years AND take on bad contracts while Kopitar still is on this team. This is just being realistic, if Blake made the above trade at even $1M retained, he would be fired immediately.

I watched every game PLD played in, I'm not that surprised he didn't thrive. He was placed in a defensive system, given probably the worst linemates of his career, and tried too much to play like Kopitar and Danault, which he is not like. His most common linemate was Laffy, who up until last season had played 4 AHL games and no NHL experience. He went through a gauntlet of NHL tweeners like Kaliyev and JAD. His line with FIala could score, but was defensively vulnerable, when he had Lewis and Laffy he was defensively sound but those two couldn't score. It was only when Kopitar or Danault sat, that it was clear that PLD could easily take over a top-6 role, they just didn't have the players to play with him as he wasn't defensively as strong as Danaut and Kopitar. The long-term injury to Arvidsson pushed Fiala up to Danault's line, and basically, PLD hit rock bottom until mid-season. After the coaching change PLD started to hit his stride, he still had weak linemates but played more of his game.

It's not that LA is super excited for PLD, it's that they feel more confident they can salvage a 25 year old who has shown he can bounce back, than throw in the towel and retain as well as take on bad contracts. If next season PLD is still a 45 point winger, Blake will already be fired and the Kings will be on the hook for one of the worst contracts in the league. But the likelihood is, he is paired with Byfield (who he has statistically thrived with) and he becomes a 60-70 point player. PLD has done this before, look at his first season with Winnipeg, he's been bad, but he was not the primary reason LA fired their coach, he was not why LA lost in the playoffs.</div></div>

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Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 12 at 5:04 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 12 at 1:01 p.m.
Thread: ZEGRAS TRADE AT 6TH OVERALL PICK OF THE DRAFT PLUS OFFSEASON KNIGHT TRADE
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Jded</b></div><div>A version of this trade has honestly been proposed by a Habs fan somewhere close to 100 times in the last few months. And by this trade I mean ‘24 MTL 1st, Harris, Yllonen. For the 101st time (sorry for the snark but not sure why we’re still doing this):
Harris - less than zero interest in ANA
Yllonen - less than zero interest
MTL ‘24 1st - very attractive
MTL ‘25 1st - very attractive but likely overkill on value

Drop the uninteresting prospects, add someone like Beck/Mesar, lose the second first rounder and at least the value is right with pieces ANA would care about

Even still, the trade is highly unlikely for 3 reasons:
1. Verbeek wants to compete for playoffs next year and has talked about adding a bonafide top 6 wing. Any Zegras trade is a big step back in an area he already feels we’re shorthanded
2. The only players Verbeek would likely consider this for at 6th are probably gone or MTL would just prefer to draft them (Lev and Lindstrom)
3. You’re trading for a player that isn’t available. Lebrun dispelled the rumor like a month ago based on multiple inside sources (something the original rumor lacked) and Verbeek outright said the same in an interview this past week</div></div>

All valid points. Actually, I'm get feedback from some Duck fans and they're saying that the deal is fine. They would trade Zegras to get 2 picks in the top six.