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the DATSYUKIAN DEKE 

Islanders, Rangers and Bruins 

No good forwards, which is what we needed, were available at the time. 

I agree that holding onto Mitchell as our 3LD would've worked out well. We win the cup in 2011, we do well in 2012 and then we start rebuilding in 2013. Changes the whole trajectory of our franchise with one move. 

Leo Carlsson reminds me of Sundin. He'd be a great pickup. With Forsberg 2.0 in Petey and Carlsson as a Sundin 2.0, that's great depth down the middle. It would be great if we had more than one first rounder to build up our defensive depth.

Tampa has a pretty strong backend so we could Cal Foote come available. If so, it's due time that we pried him out of there. I'd offer up Hoglander. Might be an overpayment but IDC we need Foote he's the perfect partner for Hughes going forward. They're even in the same age group.

But yeah, we slide in at 3rd overall and take Leo, we won't regret it. 

Slafkovsky is a rookie, Alf. 

Lafreniere will be a late-bloomer. 

The jury is still out on both. 

Garland and Boeser aren't bad contracts, Alf. 

Torts back to the state of Florida. Maybe he can get Bobrovsky back on track? 

Our D is like swiss-cheese.

Is there any D via trade available? Certainly not in free agency. Will the Devils be willing to dangle Subban and if so, will they retain 50%? That would probably cost a 2nd or maybe a 3rd round draft pick. 

The best candidate to acquire is Arizona's Anton Stralman, who is perfectly capable of covering Hughes or Rathbone. Stralman is a veteran and we just don't have the luxury of sending Rathbone down to the AHL, we need him to be a regular here. At 50% retained, we use the Hamonic suspension space + Brad Hunt + a 3rd round pick in 2023, that'll be enough to get Stralman and boy do we need him. 

We've got TWO elite lefties who can cover for Rathbone's mistakes. Once Hughes gets back in his groove, we won't need to replace Rathbone because he'll be playing easy minutes. But on the right side, with Hamonic gone and with an already relative thinness at the position, it makes sense to acquire Stralman who is a veteran with experience on playoff teams and with young defensemen. He probably should've been in the OEL trade, but it would've been too big a trade. 

To get Lind back? Why? He's looking like a bust or as Alf would say: a bustaroo 

Abbotsford or Vancouver? Idk. Probably Vancouver unless our prospects do very well. They're being insulated well. Plasek? Will he be good? Woo? Can he be a top 2 defender in the AHL, as part of his eventual transition to the NHL. Carson Focht and Will Lockwood? Can they be good? Lockwood is probably a 0.5PPG guy in the AHL and Focht is probably a second or third line center. Then there's Michael DiPietro. He's their starter. Can he backstop the team to a successful season? 

Alf what are you saying man. For RHD, the Devils are one of the deepest teams. Down the middle, they're pretty solid as well. Zacha, Hischier and Hughes? Good stuff. We've got Pettersson, Horvat and Dickinson which is pretty comparable. They're better on D than us, I'd say we have a better second line and we're better in goal. Also on the wings, they don't have a Hoglander or a Garland. You've got to be fair and balanced man. 

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Poolman looks to be a tier or maybe two below Tanev. 

@King Heffy Marco Sturm wasn't signed to be traded. He was traded because he didn't put up the numbers we expected him too so we brought Booth in to replace him. Booth sucked and we had to buy him out, end of story. 

If the Devils retain half, I'll take Subban if they give me a 2nd round draft pick. There's a reason why smashville dumped him on the Devils. Would you rather have Subban or Josi? Lol, not even close. 

Detroit doesn't need Bedard or Wright. They'll draft someone who is just as good that fits in there core, likely a European player that isn't on anyone's radar. Look at what Yzerman did in Tampa, nabbing guys like Point and Kucherov out of the first round. Arizona needs a superstar, they thought they were getting one in Strome and they had to salvage what was left of the asset and got Schmaltz for him. Schmaltz turned out to a far superior player on a great contract, so I think if Arizona wants to go scorched Earth then they can. 

For next years' draft, I say Wright goes Arizona, Seattle picks second, Columbus at third, Buffalo at fourth and Nashville at fifth. We'll keep our pick, which you'd have to hope would be in the late teens of the first. If they trade our first, I'll hit the roof. I don't see Matthews signing in Arizona when his contract expires, I think he'll stay in Toronto under an even more grossly-overpaid contract. Matthews hasn't won anything and he's not the best player in the world, I'd say he should be getting $9M instead of $11.6M. By the time Matthews is a UFA, Arizona will either be in Houston or they'll be one of the best young teams in the league or BOTH. 

I think a 3rd round pick for Holtby would be a great return, as long as we're only retaining $1 Million. Schmidt could probably fetch a 2nd, I don't think it's worth trading him honestly unless we need the money. Virtanen won't get anything and we don't have anything else to trade. If we could get something for Virtanen, I'd ask for a 3rd or 4th round pick. 

If we get offered a first for Schmidt though, we take it even if it's after 25OV. We need to get as many young players into this organization so when our vets regress or can't play at all we've got a good replacement. We only have five draft picks this year, we haven't picked in the first round for two consecutive years and now that we've made our big move it's time to be conservative.

1 year $875,000 

3OV 1987 and Cam Neely for Barry Pederson 

Kerfoot over McCann? Only if Toronto gives the Kraken Hirvonen 

Montreal could easily get knocked off by the Lightning but they've made it this far. I don't know if they'll win or not, and I should be cheering for them because they're a Canadian team but I'd rather someone else wins, not Tampa, and that's the only option but if the Islanders or the Knights were still in it I'd be cheering for the Knights. 

 @Patel Bure McDavid's work ethic blows Messier out of the water. And by far, McDavid is a far more dominant player in a much harder era to score. I see McDavid being the first player in a long time to register 150 points in a season, maybe even next year if the Oilers can retain RNH, add more depth, improve their defense and get rid of some bad contracts.

Plus they've got Jesse Puljujarvi, so I think if they put Draisaitl-McDavid-Puljujarvi as their top line next year all of a sudden they've got the best line in the league with some solid secondary scoring from RNH, Yamamoto and they've got a solid prospect in Dylan Holloway who can probably step in and play next year. 

Edmonton would be foolish to move him, he's carrying the whole team. Otherwise they'd easily be a lottery team and barren of any solid forward prospects besides maybe Lavoie. 

I don't know about Connor McDavid but I see Eichel either going to Minnesota or the Rangers. 

If we're picking a forward, I take McTavish over Johnson any day. If  Mason McTavish, Dylan Guenther, Luke Hughes, William Eklund or Simon Edvinsson are available at #9, we've hit a homerun in the ilk of Quinn, Boeser, Pettersson and Hoglander.

He'll cost $6-7M, the Blue Jackets would be a great fit. Nuge would be a solid playmaker for Laine.