Jenner would be nice, but Anderson would be the target for me. Anderson + Savard for whatever futures you want (not Byram). How about Newhook and a 1st.
I think I'm just going to start adding "we are not selling low on Josh Anderson" to every post I make in the trade forums now. It seems like it's necessary.
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Nothing against Jenner, but I wouldn't complain if we could snag Murray or Savard without him being involved.
Very doable. Murray more than Savard, mostly because we're better able to patch up a hole at LD than we are at RD.
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I purposely made it an all futures package because of where the Jackets are as a team and their lack of picks and prospects going forward. If the Jackets are looking for roster talent it was a swing and a miss by me and this definitely doesn’t make sense. I just assumed a rebuild was happening.
The thing is, we're short on prospects because most of them are actually playing in the NHL at the moment; this is a development-and-experience year that we were hoping could be something more. So while futures are desirable (we're going to need to restock that pool), it's not a desperation push or anything like that.
Or, put differently, we're in a partial rebuild already... but we've already got all the guys we need at every position except C and "elite scoring forward".
I would trade Burakovsky for Savard straight up if that makes any sense for CBJ.
I would be very concerned about "buying high" in that case. Burakovsky's never been anywhere near his present points-per-game level before as a professional, after all, and a 21% shooting rate is not the sort of thing that's going to last. If I thought he could do something that here, I'd be interested, but the guy he's previously been in Washington is not the sort of guy I'd trade Savard straight up for.
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So what do you think Jarmo would be looking for if we were just talking about Murray or Savard? Sans Jenner.
With regard to Savard, we have a need for a #2C better than Jenner - Jenner's barely holding his own, but he shouldn't be there full-time. I'd been hoping to do a Savard-for-Kadri swap last offseason, but obviously y'all beat us to him. and I'm still a tad bitter.
That's technically also true with Murray, but Murray we can also more readily afford to do a futures package with, since Gavrikov has stepped up and been everything we hoped. Of course, Murray also has his injury history, so we'd be obliged to temper expectations.