Ill take that bet. At the 2019 trade deadline Duchene will be traded for the more than the Equivalent of 3 First round picks and a 2nd. What are the terms?
If Duchene is traded at the 2019 TDL for less than a non-bluechip prospect + 2nd I pick your avi for a year, if he is traded for the equivalent of Bellows + 2nd you pick my avi for a year?
How about duchene for mcfleury, bean and a 2018 1st from Carolina. They have hanafin Faulk pesche and slavin in their top 4 for the near future and duchene would help them now. colorado gets 2 defense prospects- which they need and it helps alleviate the pain of butcher not signing with them.
The avs already signed Warsofsky to alleviate that "pain".
And colorado doesn't just need any defensive prospects, they need a #1 LHD prospect. They've already got Zadorov, Makar, Meloche, Bigras & Timmins who are all 22 or younger with top 4 talent (or higher); plus there's a handful of solid third pairing prospects (Mironov, Lindholm, Boikov, Anderson).
i doubt very seriously that tavares is basing his decision on whether or not matt bloody duchene is an islander or not.
you are giving duchene credit for having WAAAAAAAAY to much power. do you think that maybe matt could get the ice at the barclays centre fixed too while hes at it?
At this point you're probably right. What faith in his abilities Snow might've been able to save, he's probably squandered away for good by putzing around instead of making a move that gave Tavares a reason to stay.