Not a 3rd line center.
He's done all of this on a garbage Phoenix team that sucks at everything.
He'll be a third line center here, though.
And that's assuming that the team gives up on Hayes at C for a number of years.
Those numbers are actually way better than I thought they were, I'll admit that. Though, the result of them being so good would be NYR paying a higher price than they maybe should for a 3C who is really more than a 3C.
I just don't think it's a great idea to have 4m coming in with something like an ELC going the other way along with a player who could potentially provide millions of dollars of production against the cap for under a million. They're already going to have to lose a winger, then they're going to lose another potential winger. Hayes could line in at that spot maybe, but then an just okay prospect pool turns into a pretty questionable one IMO.