Personally, I'm going for the playoffs
Stutzle-Norris-Batherson
Tkachuk-Brown-Dadonov
Formenton-Paul-Brown
Chlapik-White-Watson
Galchenyuk
Chabot-Zub
Brannstrom-Zaitsev
Wolanin-Gudbranson
Brown
Trade Tierney for a 1st, profit, rebuild complete
Lmao, waive Tierney? We could easily get a 1st round pick for him.
Besides, he's been our best center, and our best shutdown guy this season.
He gets way too much unjustified hate around here.
If it was possible, then Dorion should be fired just for not making that deal... he acquired Stepan for a 2nd and we're stuck with him this season, basically an older and slower Tierney, with less work ethic too. We don't need both. Nick Paul is actually good on face-offs and need to be made a center. He has good defensive awareness, great size and good speed for a huge guy. He should be groomed to be the 3rd line center.
Norris, White, Paul and Stepan as centers until we can upgrade it by bringing Logan Brown in or moving Stutzle to Center.
Peak value to trade Tierney was 2019, when he was 24 y/o cost controlled and producing a nice amount of assists. I wanted Dorion to trade him at that time but ship has sinked now, could probably still get a 2nd for him.
Saying Tierney is an average NHL player is NOT hate, it's the reality. An average NHL player is very good at hockey.