Dumba for Ehlers is a trade I can get behind. Basically add another Fiala. Add Danault on top of that and thats a nice looking team.
Ehlers seems like a terrible pick-up for this team, positionally speaking.
Fiala, Kap, Ehlers, Zucc, Parise, Boldy, Foligno, X is a fantastic winger group. However, it’s a very expensive winger group that leaves almost nothing for the centers.
Addison and Mennell both look like they’ve got great potential at RD so their ELCs would help, but next year we’d likely have $35-40M tied up in our wingers and about $27M in our defense.
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Crunched the numbers on this:
OFFENSE:
Ehlers, Zucc, Parise, Foligno, Boldy: $23.5M
Kap, Fiala: ~$12M-$15M
Rossi, Ek, Sturm: ~$5.2M
Rask Buyout: $1.3M
DEFENSE:
Spurgeon, Suter, Brodin, Soucy, Addison, Mennell: $25.6M
GOALIES:
Talbot, Kaapo: $4.4M
TOTAL: $72M - $75M
So roughly $6.5-9.5M to sign a Top 6 C, 4th line RW, and 2 extra skaters. Not impossible if the higher cap space is available, but still incredibly tight. I don’t see Zucc or Parise being moved somehow either.