Value of: Anze Kopitar
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If he was available I am sure the Rangers would be the first in line for any trade.
I do wonder what they would be able to offer though.
kravtsov,+ Kreider+Georgiev +1st round pick?
I do wonder what they would be able to offer though.
kravtsov,+ Kreider+Georgiev +1st round pick?
Doesn't Kopitar say no to that? Doesn't Columbus also say no to that, given the age discrepancy?
Larry Hanson
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Love to see him in Calgary but I can't see it working considering acquisition cost, age, AAV and I doubt he would waive to come to Canada.
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I'd be surprised if Columbus was interested in that. What would be the plus from LA?
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A 10 million dollar, 33 year old center on the wrong side of the curve.....which will get steeper.
How many good years does he have left?
This will be interesting....
How many good years does he have left?
This will be interesting....
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3 years left and still has decent play, the issue the is the price. No contender will be able to fit him at 10m and no team with cap space needs a 33 year old center. LA would have to retain salary to make anything work.
I gotta imagine a team like St.louis or Boston would love to run Kopitar behind ROR/Bergeron.
Boston seems to make the most sense to me. Their window is closing quickly.
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Blake on the record says they're expecting a playoff push starting this year.No team will give up the price it would take to trade for Kopitar and Kings arent going to give him away.
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Huge gamble, Kopitar for 2 years helps compete now but I don't know that he would be enough to make the Flames a serious contender. Losing Valimaki is tough, he's still too young to know for sure but he could be a top pairing dman for a decade. I'd have to pass.
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And you call yourself a Flames fan. Disgusting.
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Doubtful Columbus is on Kopitar's 7 team trade list, And why would Jarmo trade a young 22 year old PLD for a 33 year old Anze Kopitar?
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Yeah the Flames aren't a Kopitar away from winning the cup, That's a disgusting trade from Calgary.
There might be interest from Columbus side, if they could work out a deal that would involve both Kopitar and one of the center prospects. So that Kopitar would be the immediate replacement for PLD and the prospect was the long term replacement. But I doubt they can work out something that works for both teams, because there’s a lot of cap, term and moving parts. The term is obviously the killer. If he had two years left then trying to do a deal around Kopitar and one of Kings’ center prospect for PLD as the basis might be worth trying. I have faith that Kopitar has a couple of good years left, but four is pushing it a bit too much. Well Kopitar would probably block any trade anyway.
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4 more years left on that contract including this one. Kopitar's modified NTC allows him to pick 7 teams he'd be willing to be traded to, so he essentially controls whether or not he gets traded. Kings would certainly have to eat 30-50% of the cap hit to make a deal work.
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See the problem with this situation is it’s one where the GM’s interests are at odds with/diverge from the team’s interests.
As GM, Blake is on the clock and under pressure to make the playoffs ASAP. But the team is in the middle of a major rebuild and while it’s nice to make the playoffs they’ll have no chance at getting past Round 1. All a small playoff run (or attempt to get there) will do is create a brief moment of happiness while screwing the team out of top picks and wasting the last bits of Kopitar/Doughty’s primes.
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First team I thought of as well. Setting aside the obvious (salary issues, roster issues), if it happens it's going to have to be a team in that "window is closing" tier: Boston, Pens, Capitals, Nashville. Maybe you could throw in the teams that are at the height of their powers right now: Dallas, St Louis, Vegas.
Clearly most of those wouldnt work. But Boston, yeah I could see him winding up there and giving them a few more kicks at the can before Krejci, Marchand and Bergeron really start to drop off.
Kopitar + Turcotte for Dubois + Dubinsky's LTIR contract + goalie prospect (Vevilainen?)?
This was my line of thinking
