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Forum: Armchair-GMMay 6, 2019 at 4:12 p.m.
Thread: Ideal 2019-2020 Ducks
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>RandyC</b></div><div>Couldn't agree less. Even being inherently biased as a Ducks fan, I still feel that if anything, its a little light for Ristolainen. He's been a lock for 40+ points on some marginal Sabres teams. Comtois at best will be a 30 goal guy. Larsson and Morand will both be solid NHL'ers, but are nothing to write home about. Even with throwing in an early second, I'm not entirely sold it's enough for a right handed D-man that consistently puts up points. I'd do this in a heartbeat as a Ducks fan, but could easily see it taking more to get him out of Buffalo.</div></div>

In a heartbeat? You're talking about trading away a former 1st round pick, two former second round picks (one of whom is playing more like a first rounder) and the 39th overall pick in this year's draft for a d-man who is a career -143. Yes he puts up a lot of points and he's actually on a pretty good contract but that's mortgaging a huge chunk of our future for a player we don't need THAT badly. I'm in favor of a move to get someone like Zaitsev because the apparent cost is minimal. This team isn't a d-man away from contending. We're at least two years away from contending again (i.e. when Getzlaf and Perry have moved on and we've hopefully drafted well enough to replace them). We could have a legitimate star in Comtois and I'm not eager to trade him for anybody at this point, not while we're still rebuilding/retooling/re-whatever-the-hell-we're-doing.