He get's barely 30 seconds of PP time a night. You wanna give those minutes to Schneider next year? lol, great. But right now, there's no one else to take Trouba's minutes. And there probably won't be anyone next season either. There is absolutely zero reason to touch the right side of the D until at least another two full seasons.
I'd be more worried about the PK time than the PP time.
As I said, Schneider is already close to Trouba in actual defending, actually. I think it's an outside possibility that Schneider can be pretty close to Trouba next year when Trouba is 30, and if not, I would definitely bet the year after when Trouba is 31.
Yes, he is. Schneider is showing this year every bit of what Miller showed last year. There's no reason to think Schneider can't handle a top 4 role next year.
He's not their top RD, Fox is. And also, he has a NMC. I guarantee you he won't waive.
I understand that Fox is their top RD. My point is that if Trouba was playing at the level of a top pair D but was just assigned to the second pair, that would be one thing. He's not playing that well. He's playing at the level of a solid second pair defenseman.
He probably won't waive, I understand that, but it's tangential to the rest of the debate, which actually was, why would a player waive? If he won't waive, he won't waive. Oh well. But if he's surpassed, and there's a chance that happens sooner rather than later, and his role here is shrinking, that would be a reason to waive.
Laff and Kreider play different games and have different roles on the team. Also, NMC. And if you think Gallant or whoever is going to put him on the 3rd or 4th line just to get him to waive, you're crazy. If the day comes that Laff's play demands he plays on the first line, awesome. He or Krieder will move to the right side.
Ehm, not putting him there "just to get him to waive." I was positing that it's completely realistic that Kreider is our third best LW as soon as next season. Which is very possible. Which would then be a reason he might waive, if he's getting lesser minutes and no PP time anymore.
Your vision needs glasses. You're talking about the two undisputed leaders of this team, earning every penny of their deals. They aren't going anywhere. They'll figure out how to pay the players who need new deals. Everyone freaked out about Kakko's next deal breaking the bank and that came and went. Good team figure this stuff out.
If we can figure it out, fine. It's not like I'm opposed to having a third line LW who can score 30 goals.
The point is, though, that sooner rather than later those contracts are going to be too expensive for their roles and those players will probably end up moved, at least one of them will be.
Those players are most likely going somewhere at some point, despite your assertions. They aren't both going to see the end of their deals here. It may not be this coming offseason, it may not be the next one, but it will happen at some point. Once that has been made clear to a player there is incentive there to waive, that's all. Like, hey, next offseason when your NMC changes to a NTC and we can trade you to 15 different locations, we are gonna have to move you, you sure you don't want to consider a move now while you have some control?
That was the genesis of this debate. "Why would these players waive?" When they get passed by the kids and the writing is on the wall that they are no longer the in the top 6 of most important players, there's reason there that they MIGHT consider waiving. I'm not saying it's definitely happening tomorrow, but I absolutely could see it happening while they still have NMCs.
