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Forum: Armchair-GMJan. 10 at 11:33 p.m.
Thread: Newhook-Dach - similar trades candidates
Dach and Newhook had in common that they were traded away between the end of season and draft, by teams who didn't want to give them pay increases, but prefered futures and the capspace (for contending or tanking).

You can eliminate every players signed for the 2024-2025 season. (Holt, Bourque, Neighbors). No incentive to trade away players near minimum salary.

You can eliminate LA, Columbus and Buffalo, since they have capspace and want to get results short term.

We are left with Wahlstrom (meh), Holloway and Kakko. IMO only Edmonton could be tempted to move in season to get capspace at TDL, but if not the Campbell buyout would give them capspace during the off season.

Only NYR could get tempted to move on from Kakko before the Draft, like the Avs with Newhook.

Another young buy low/big potential target IMO could be Texier. But Columbus would want an NHL ready player (Harris?).
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 4, 2023 at 9:00 p.m.
Thread: Would it be enough
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>simonveilleux</b></div><div>IMO, even at this stage, Smith looks more promising than Laf.
Would never swap them, that would be an overpayment for a guy that's barely having an impact on his actual team, 3 years in.</div></div>

I get what you’re saying but you are still talking abt a 21 year old that can put up ~40 points a year. Yeah Not what you want from a #1 overall, but there is still another level that he had in the qmjhl that he hasn’t hit in the nhl. While it gets more unlikely every year that passes without hitting it, it’s still too early to write him off completely. Even if he maxes out as a 60 point forward, those are still very useful. I do get what you are saying about Smith though, which is why I used that pick as the example of one where NYR would be forced to consider the trade. They have a lot of middle level prospects already, so it would have to be quality more than quantity if they were getting rid of Laffy due to his potential.
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 1, 2022 at 4:43 p.m.
Thread: Craving trades
This is the first Anderson trade I've seen with a 1st coming BACK with Anderson....but even still, I can't see any way Devils have interest in the Anderson contract.

Some rando podcaster for the Habs blurts out the Devils are VERY interested, well I have bad news on that front for Habs fans.

The Devils are a high analytics team, Anderson analytics stink.

None of the Devils trades were actually forecasted. Anyone saying the Devils had interest in VV is just a shot in the dark knowing the Devils needed a goalie. Beyond that, no one saw the Siegenthaler or Marino trades coming. Not even the Ryan Graves deal had any leaks. So why would the Devils suddenly have openly leaked discussions on a bad analytic player with too large of a contract for his output??

If anyone wants to look at John Marino underperforming last year....well...look at the cost the Devils gave up for him. They bought low, and he's been stellar. Any purchase of an underperforming Anderson wouldn't also come with the cost of a highly valuable asset.