- Jun 10, 2014
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IF Trouba will not resign, I'd restructure the trade like this..
Trouba
Copp
4th
for
Matt Duchene
Zadorov
2nd (conditional: turns into 1st if Trouba signs long term w/avs)
The value starts to look reasonable if you just make it the 1st - no lottery protection either. If Avs aren't confident of signing him they shouldn't make the deal. Without the 1st, neither should we. We could trade him elsewhere for more, without conditions.
I still think we could do better but the expected strength of the '18 draft would make this worth considering.
Imagine having
Scheifele
Little
Duchene
Down the middle
That would be too much $$$ and cap at C. Duchene is a UFA in 2 years. He is going to get at least 6.5 M. - to play 3C?
We would have to immediately trade one of Little/Duchene. Trade Little and Duchene leaves for UFA. ******! So ..... which RHD do we trade Duchene for?
BTW, what are we going to do with Zadorov? 3rd pair RD?
The list of things wrong with this concept just grows the more you think about it.