Yeah, if we've actually signed Duchene, give us just any ol' thing for Turris. No retention or anything, but you can have him for a song. New country even.
You could try for retention anyway, but that would probably involve waiting a few months and hoping there are no other suitors. If the only thing the Preds do is sign Duchene and keep all the rest of their incumbents, they wouldn't be a full $6M over the cap. They'd have a little bit of room to retain in theory. Then every step you took closer to the cap compliance deadline in the fall would take you one step closer to them being desperate enough to drop Turris with a wee bit of retention perhaps. It's highly unlikely Poile would let things get into that kind of last minute game of chicken, though. But that's about the only way I see retention coming into play.Thats kind of where I was, but I didn't want to insult anyone on that side. Love the Preds as a Canes fan, who I'd root for in the West given the chance.
Little retention maybe?
I can't see the benefit in that for the Preds. Subban is too important to us still to sell him off that cheaply. He could be traded. But not for cap dumps coming back and futures. We already have Bonino and Sissons at center so even if there is some argument that Sutter might be anything but a cap dump, he brings nothing to us. We already have a full set of LD, so Hutton doesn't do anything either. Virtanen and a 1st is not enough for Subban.
I don't think we want Kadri or Brown. Ellis could be traded, but it would take a higher profile scoring winger. Starting point would be more like Kapanen, sliding up towards Nylander perhaps.
Not too interested in trading nylander tbh. He is looking poised for a comeback year and Ellis is a bit too old to deal him for. We cant just deal kap as his cap hit wont be enough to balance the books
