Are you dreaming up these Devils/Rangers deals, or is there some "backing" to them?
Nurse would be excellent here. I'm fine with 20 + McLeod.
Zacha stays, though. He had 24 points in his last 34 games centering Bratt and Gusev. We need him as our 2C next year so Jack can get some delicious matchups on the third line.
18+ Zacha for Nurse is a delightful offer. Zacha had 20 EV points all year so not sure about your theory there.
I was overly generous the first time around to the original monstrosity but the new version where Arizona gets nothing of value and takes Neal off Edmonton’s hand as well makes this high grade nonsense.
I can believe the argument that Arizona would get less if they only took back futures and limited salary in return for OEL, similar to Subban, but they get nothing and, oh yeah, could you deal with this 3 year/5.75m anchor deal too?
The argument that Arizona could flip Nurse made sense because they could use him and for sure flip him later but Neal? You’re saying Arizona can just go flip Neal to a different team? Then why doesn’t Edmonton go do it themselves? If want to throw in a cap dump, throw in Russell. It’s pretty simple.
Arizona cares most specifically about cash right now so trading OEL, who’s owed 4m, for a guy who makes 5.75m makes no sense. Don’t talk to me about next year, in business when shit’s on fire you deal with the current fire and next year is something you deal with later.