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http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2021699
A lot of them seem to like the offer, which is:
Beau Bennett RW
Ian Cole D
4th round pick
for
Jamie McGinn
6th round pick
Positives: McGinn is a solid left wing, willing to hit, is a good team guy, is more of a finisher/complementary piece than playmaker, but would provide a cheap (2.9) option to either play alongside Sid at best, or slide in on the third next to Bonino/Cullen and Fehr. It also gets us out of the Ian Cole deal, and while he still could live up to what we saw last year, it does give us 2 million in cap relief for the next two seasons if we don't resign McGinn, or if we like McGinn enough we can pay for his extension with the money we were spending on Cole. And no one wants to lose a draft pick, but if we trade late round picks to sweeten the pot we won't be losing any picks, and by the fourth a lot of picks are busting anyways.
Worst case scenario: Bennett finally stays healthy with them and becomes a regular in their top six, Cole becomes a top four defenseman, they get a really good player with out fourth round pick, McGinn sucks for us, our 6th busts; but at the very least we still get two million in cap relief.
For them, Bennett is a cheap option who could fill in their top six if healthy, or is easily dropped if not. Cole fills one their biggest holes, LD, and cheaply. If he sucks, he's fairly easily bought out, and they're a team who can afford to do that more than we can. For us, McGinn could fill a huge hole on one of our first or third left wing (and use Kunitz at the other, or another trade preferably), we need the two extra million in cap space that dropping Cole would provide long term, and if we like McGinn enough I don't see him being a winger that's going to get a monster raise. Since McGinn is playing better now, and has a more established track record, I offered the trade up of later picks in addition.
Most of them seem to like it; some would rather get a 2nd or 3rd round draft pick straight up (which I said most of us would refuse). What do we think here?
A lot of them seem to like the offer, which is:
Beau Bennett RW
Ian Cole D
4th round pick
for
Jamie McGinn
6th round pick
Positives: McGinn is a solid left wing, willing to hit, is a good team guy, is more of a finisher/complementary piece than playmaker, but would provide a cheap (2.9) option to either play alongside Sid at best, or slide in on the third next to Bonino/Cullen and Fehr. It also gets us out of the Ian Cole deal, and while he still could live up to what we saw last year, it does give us 2 million in cap relief for the next two seasons if we don't resign McGinn, or if we like McGinn enough we can pay for his extension with the money we were spending on Cole. And no one wants to lose a draft pick, but if we trade late round picks to sweeten the pot we won't be losing any picks, and by the fourth a lot of picks are busting anyways.
Worst case scenario: Bennett finally stays healthy with them and becomes a regular in their top six, Cole becomes a top four defenseman, they get a really good player with out fourth round pick, McGinn sucks for us, our 6th busts; but at the very least we still get two million in cap relief.
For them, Bennett is a cheap option who could fill in their top six if healthy, or is easily dropped if not. Cole fills one their biggest holes, LD, and cheaply. If he sucks, he's fairly easily bought out, and they're a team who can afford to do that more than we can. For us, McGinn could fill a huge hole on one of our first or third left wing (and use Kunitz at the other, or another trade preferably), we need the two extra million in cap space that dropping Cole would provide long term, and if we like McGinn enough I don't see him being a winger that's going to get a monster raise. Since McGinn is playing better now, and has a more established track record, I offered the trade up of later picks in addition.
Most of them seem to like it; some would rather get a 2nd or 3rd round draft pick straight up (which I said most of us would refuse). What do we think here?