have to think the avs will keep malinski they way he's playing.
Maybe. They don't have much to horse trade with.
Ritchie and
Gulyaev look awesome and untouchable to me.
Byram wasn't even playing and is our firmly established #3 plus the Manson-Girard pairing hasn't been remotely good enough to feel confident in as your middle pair. Their play is too bi-polar.
Manson needs Byram to babysit him and Josh's many glaring mistakes when Manson is having his somewhat frequent off-games. Girard doesn't cover for these Manson errors nearly as well as Bo.
And
Girard has the AWOL event this year so his value is low.
Malinski does look promising. And he's RHD and a PP2 QB. Toews sucks at PP2 QB. So I'd like to keep Sam.
So
that leaves the Avs with the 2024 1st and not much else to work with. Their farm sucks outside of their 2023 1st rounders... which both look like A prospects right now. Esp Gulyaev.. but Ritchie is really thriving too.
So I think they were there to watch DeBrusk and Malinski.