Who is even saying that Kruger is backup plan for Duchene? Come on, it`s nothing like that, we are just acquiring center depth, and why we would not do that. His actual salary is not that big, his cap hit is only for 2 more seasons. As people said before, it would allow Staal to play a bit more offensive game and not be always against best opposition to shut them down.
If there is no trade what makes sense for #1/2 C our backup plan for sure is not Kruger, it`s just getting assets to make us better, and you better believe that if Kruger is available and we can get him, it would help us out a lot defensively.
And if you are worried about our cap situation just look at capfriendly and calm your ass down.
There are not many good #1-2 C available, Duchene is one of them. Sakic is asking for way to much or a deal is not making sense to our team, so why we would trade for him. We can get deeper at C by getting Kruger, and have a decent team who can surely challenge for playoff spot. There is no need to sell our young players now for uncertainty.
Jesus that guy is ******** who wrote that tweet.