I'm just asking why. Tarasenko is also a beast and has better point totals, and isn't coming off a broken ankle. But I understand how ROR impacts the game in other ways.
He'd be a great fit in Toronto. Just wish we'd have more time to watch him after returning from his injury before trading for him.
ROR is recovered from broken foot. Full participant in practice today and may play as soon as Saturday.
Well tarasenko just set the bar. Ror will get a first +. Be crazy if it was first and knies for ror 50% and a cap dump.
In pure goal scoring tank is better. But what ror brings can not be matched. His line not only scored but was instrumental in shutting down bostons perfect line allowing us to win the cup. By far one of the best two way shutdown forwards. Whoever he goes to will automatically be a contender imo
Bouchard has more value than ROR at this point. He's not some prospect. Bouchard is a piece for a Parayko trade, not a trade for a rental.
Parayko would cost a decent amount ror 1st +.
No 1st plus b or a prospect. That's the price. Now since several teams are interested price goes up.
Parayko to Edmonton makes some sense. How would Oil make cap work on that? How much crap would we have to take back?
We're basically dollar-in, dollar-out at this point. Actually a bit worse than dollar in-dollar out, as we don't have enough cap space to fit Yamamoto in when he comes back from LTIR, so cap space workarounds wouldn't be easy. The simple answer is to figure out what assets you would need for just Parayko, and just add on Pulujarvi's expiring contract, which will get us half way there. Would the Blues have any interest in taking Yamamoto? He has one year left, and has had an injury filled season this year, but last year he popped 20 goals. I'd include him in the deal as well, despite our lack of RW depth. We could take back some expiring junk contracts as well to keep the Blues from going to their max contract limit, as long as they are expiring deals and/or guys who can be buried in the minors, like Pitlick, Frk, Highmore, etc.
Probably have to take back most the crap (some combo of Ceci, Barrie, Foegele, Puljaravi, Yamamoto). They'd have to free up enough space to have Parayko on roster at $6.5M and to fill in the roster spots of the crap offloads. So probably need $8M+ going back to St. Louis or another team.
