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Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 26, 2021 at 8:50 a.m.
Thread: youth movement
I don't hate it and I like where your head is at but a couple points:
1. I think Raymond, Veleno and Berggren will all see NHL time next season but not to start the year. They all will and should start in the AHL.
2. I'd go Krejci over Bjugstad if you can get him. Deadline asset will be better and on-ice performance will be better while keeping that center spot warm.
3. No reason to buy out Nielsen since you're below the cap as is. Just make the the permanent 13th forward or send him to the AHL.
4. Chase Pearson could very well make the team next season as 4c.

With those moves above you get a lineup of:
Bertuzzi-Larkin-Mantha
Zadina-Krejci-Fabbri
Svechnikov-Rasmussen-Hirose/Brome
Player X-Pearson-Smith

Pretty much just as young, but I think the players slot into their roles and styles a little bit better. If Raymond/Berggren/Veleno are destroying the AHL, Krejci and Fabbri would both be on expiring deals and can bring back good assets at the deadline.
Forum: Trade Machine ProposalsMar. 25, 2021 at 5:11 p.m.
Thread: 3 way everybody is happy
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Tarlam01</b></div><div>Who? MTL getting what they need. NSH getting what they want from Ekholm and Detroit getting some free assets</div></div>

Unless I'm missing something on Norlinder, which it appears that I might be based on the other responses in this thread, NSH and DET both decline.

Glendening is worth a third, maybe more. Soderblom currently has higher upside than the average fifth given his size, hands and performance at the most recent WJC. I'd probably put his value at a third. While you shouldn't pay to get rid of Byron, it would cost at least second to do so. So you're short on value on the first two assets and probably fine on the last one. That still leaves you short on the deal. It's not massively short, but it's still a little short.

Nashville is getting a mid-late first rounder, a defenseman who looks like he might make the NHL (maybe even as an offensive second pair guy but also probably not), Soderblom as I mentioned above, and a guy in Lehkonen who are a dime a dozen in the FA market. The probability that they get anything that makes as big of a difference in the NHL as Ekholm is minimal. They need to rebuild, but they can get more for him. Generally when you have to add 4 players to pay for one, the values won't be there. 1 top pair dman is worth more than a 4th line forward, middling prospects and a late first rounder.

That's just my two cents.
Forum: Trade Machine ProposalsMar. 22, 2021 at 3:46 p.m.
Thread: Mantha Caufield
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Campabee</b></div><div>I wouldn't worry about whether or not the additional value of Caufield brings enough to pay the wings for taking Byron, as Montreal is not moving a potential 30-50 goal scorer for anything less than a package for McDavid\MacKinnon\Eichel and even then it would be hard for Montreal to accept losing him.</div></div>

See, I think they would if they are getting a 30 goal scorer back because of 2 things. 1, their hot start to the year and potential status as a playoff team. The expectation of winning now seems to be there. And 2. Bergevin is fighting for his job. Caufield doesn't help now, and I really think he wants to win now. I don't think this trade is all that likely, but it's a dark horse I could see happening.