Nemec would look good on the Canucks. He is the #1D in this draft. A RD that will become a two-way workhorse. He was playing for Slovakia on the Olympic qualifiers and helped secure them a spot at the Olympics.
The Knights were injury plagued and still are today. Missing a lot of their top 9, and multiple D and just got Stone back that game who's the only member of their top line healthy even today.
So a decimated Knights squad scored 7 goals against us.
With our 1st hopefully Nemec.
With the other 1sts any of Jiricek, Salomonsson, Chesley, Luneau, Casey
All of those players are RD. This is a real good draft for RD
Not really. it's literally next season when this becomes a major concern.
We wouldn't panic sell we'd put his name on the market and let teams have a bidding war. Miller is more valuable with 2 years left than 1 so IDK where you're getting at with a lesser return.
Lose them for nothing and we're set back years. Full on rebuild if that happens.
We need to see how this team does with a new coach first anyway.
The problem is if we still suck after the coaching change Miller will just walk in 2023 in free agency, same with Horvat, to be on a better team and we lose them for nothing.
The idea would be to maximize value after committing to a reset. You only commit to a reset if the players prove incapable after a coaching change. If the players prove incapable after all the coaching/gm changes made then we know we can't have success with this group and commit to a reset.
I was expecting us to be in the hunt till the end for at least a wildcard spot with an off-chance of 3rd in the division.
I also thought the division would be weaker than it is though.
In that sense yeah it's probable but for it to work both teams would need to be able to talk contracts prior to a trade being finalized.
I still don't think we're better this year for it. It's a lateral move and this team has many issues.