TheWayToRefJose
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- Oct 30, 2017
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Say we traded Jones for Lucic retained to make cap hits match, we gain no cap room and then still have to go spend at least 6 million between a new starter and a back up, so we just lost 6 millon in cap room to upgrade on Jones and add a fourth liner.I disagree that the whole purpose of the trade is to gain cap to try to sign a forward. There are many reasons to trade Jones and there are many things that the team could get back that could help them as a team. They could trade Jones for a similarly overpaid forward that could be of help to the team. They could trade him for a similarly overpaid defenseman if they have another deal done or lined up to move someone like Burns or Vlasic.
As for Burns, no it will not ever be Seabrook bad because Burns is not Seabrook bad, he's not Seabrook injured, and he's not overpaid to Seabrook's level relative to their deals while also not as restrictive at this point in time. Seabrook has a full NMC for another two seasons then a 5 team list and then a 10 team list. Burns has a three team list throughout his deal and likely has suitors beyond that.
I'm also not expecting that much in a Burns trade to be honest. Chances are, he'd be dealt to the Stars for a late 1st or a prospect like Dellandrea, a mid-round pick or a similarly valued prospect, and a contract like Oleksiak or Johns. That'd be fine.
and moving out Vlasic to move Jones for Vlasic 2.0? That doesn't seem to accomplish anything besides shuffling cap dumps.
Pretty much anything DW can do is borderline useless besides moving out a current player with high value for youth immediately able to step in on an ELC and then using the cap room gained to sign someone good. The burns thing might help a little, but it's not like we're making major strides to compete now or help ourselves out in a couple years in a major fashion.
Trading Jones and Vlasic for other cap dumps is like having 3 leaks on a bucket. You only have two hands and can only block two at a time. Move a hand to block the leaking hole and the one you were covering starts leaking.
DW has backed himself into a hole and has no clear way out. We have no high end prospects, save for Merkley, minimal draft capital, and minimal cap room. We don't have cap room to sign UFAs to plug the holes, don't have the assets to trade for players that can plug the holes and even if we did, we don't have the cap space to trade for said players. You can't fix 3rd to last in the league to being a competitor in one off-season because of that without some extremely drastic and risky moves.