scarbrow21
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Because of the expansion draft, there are D that are either available before hand from their teams, or likely afterwards from Vegas as trade bait. I'm wondering what the consensus ideals would be, cost to acquire, and affect on expansion (if trade is made prior to expansion) that people are mulling over? The teams who can't really trade or buy out there way from losing a solid player in expansion (IMO) are MIN, NYI, LAK, CBJ, and FLA.
My ideals:
1) Brayden McNabb/Alec Martinez- Cost would be a pick/exempt prospect as LAK with either have Martinez and McNabb exposed or McNabb and Forbort in order to protect some forwards. This deal is either made w/LAK prior to, and we assume the expansion issue, or with Vegas after. Either way if it's McNabb the cost would likely be prospect + higher pick
2) Calvin De Haan- Most likely being traded before expansion so would have to be assumed into our expansion plan but likely best available D there is. Cost would also be high though. Our first #13OA+prospect+? and we'd assume the expansion issue. Also probably highly coveted by other teams
3) Jason Demers- Perrault + might be the casualty here as they'd want an analytics based trade. Maybe Perrault and Dano. Again we'd have to assume the expansion issue but Demers would be another ideal target.
4) Chris Tanev- Has a NMC but would probably waive to come here and play with his brother plus he's the one who convinced Brendan to sign here, and VAN doesn't need to move him but they're in rebuild mode and could value the picks. Could be done AFTER expansion which would help WPG greatly as well. This one's tricky. DAL could give the 3rd OA straight up which we couldn't compete with, unless #13 OA + prospect+ another pick? could offer the same value. If he could play the left side with Buff that'd be ideal but if not, him on a pure shutdown line would make our third pairing excellent and actually usable!
Who are your ideals? Brendan Smith in UFA is the easy answer but I think he'll re-sign in NYR at "fair market value"
My ideals:
1) Brayden McNabb/Alec Martinez- Cost would be a pick/exempt prospect as LAK with either have Martinez and McNabb exposed or McNabb and Forbort in order to protect some forwards. This deal is either made w/LAK prior to, and we assume the expansion issue, or with Vegas after. Either way if it's McNabb the cost would likely be prospect + higher pick
2) Calvin De Haan- Most likely being traded before expansion so would have to be assumed into our expansion plan but likely best available D there is. Cost would also be high though. Our first #13OA+prospect+? and we'd assume the expansion issue. Also probably highly coveted by other teams
3) Jason Demers- Perrault + might be the casualty here as they'd want an analytics based trade. Maybe Perrault and Dano. Again we'd have to assume the expansion issue but Demers would be another ideal target.
4) Chris Tanev- Has a NMC but would probably waive to come here and play with his brother plus he's the one who convinced Brendan to sign here, and VAN doesn't need to move him but they're in rebuild mode and could value the picks. Could be done AFTER expansion which would help WPG greatly as well. This one's tricky. DAL could give the 3rd OA straight up which we couldn't compete with, unless #13 OA + prospect+ another pick? could offer the same value. If he could play the left side with Buff that'd be ideal but if not, him on a pure shutdown line would make our third pairing excellent and actually usable!
Who are your ideals? Brendan Smith in UFA is the easy answer but I think he'll re-sign in NYR at "fair market value"