The Leafs have a horseshoe up their ass this year.
That legit never happens with kids and hell there is no guarantee all of them keep it up next year.
I think we land Duchene and Shattenkirk this offseason.
I think our 2017 1st is in play.
I think we land Duchene and Shattenkirk this offseason.
I think our 2017 1st is in play.
meh...Shero has the long view in mind...he isn't moving that pick
I would trade that pick for Duchenne.
I would too, I wouldn't add to it though.
Duchene is a very good player, his performance this year doesn't concern me at all. That dumpster fire team and the constant trade rumours would kill anyones motivation.
He needs a fresh start, at only 26 he'd fit right in with the Hall, Henrique, Palmieri 'core'.
Trading down makes even less sense.
Also gives us some great center depth.
Duchenne, Zajac, Zacha, McLeod.
Also gives us plenty of flexibility to move one to wing if needed too.
Doubt the pick alone gets it done. I wouldn't add anything either.
Colorado is basically in a full rebuild at this point, I could see them biting on our first + their 3rd back or something along those lines.
I personally don't think Duchene has much more value than that; it depends on whether they'd rather swap him 1 for 1 for an established NHL defender or use our pick to draft Liljegren on top of Patrick/Hischier.
I have a hard time believing they would get a fair value roster player back for their kids.
The only player you trade the first rounder for -- even if it's one overall -- that could conceivably be available is Tavares, and even that should cause some hesitation, given that you'll have to give him at least eight years eighty million and he has something of an injury history.
Duchene has had a disastrous year -- Henrique has put up better numbers than him. It's 50/50 whether someone like Patrick is better than him right out of the gate, and whether someone like Mittlestadt is better than him in a couple of years. No thanks.
I would throw a ton of money at Shattenkirk.
Moving that pick for Duchene is a disaster. Will that player be better than Duchene? Probably not. Will that player have to be paid $8M per in 2019 and be moving out of his prime years at that point? No.
If it's a top 2 pick, keep the pick and forget Duchene.
If it's the third overall or later, trade it for Duchene.
He had a bad year, but he's only 26 years old and likely not declining. No one on their team had a good year. Just look at all their point totals, no one has produced up to their career par this season there.
They're having a historically bad year, even the good players are horribly underachieving this year.
The question marks around the top 2 picks are alarming. Nico has been ice cold for a while, and Patrick has an alarming injury history.
We are in even less of a position to end up with a bust at a pick this early. If you can get a young 1C for it, you trade the pick. This simply isn't like the last two drafts.