Also, no one has talked about whether Gens would trade #13 and/or #15 if the goal is to clearly build for M cup bid next year. Both are OA's and the best case scenario would be an upset in rd #2 last year where Oshawa made it to Conference finals.
Just my thought but it would give the younger guys a ton of playoff ice vs barrie or suds and load up the cupboard.
Osh could even package the Panther and #13 and/or #15 to teams that have OA room. G updates would know more about that likelihood as it relates to potential suitors.
I see Hunt making a huge splash this time and doing some of the above thoughts. Wont be popular but clearly this team is not ready for a Cup run in 2020.
2021 is their best bet.
Couple things with this post
1- the OA market is already saturated so you wouldn't get close to value for Neumann or MacLean
2- I don't think you win round 1 if you trade Noel, Neumann and MacLean
3- Don't get the "clearly this team is not ready for a Cup run in 2020". This team has shown it already has 2 goalies for next year, can return 5/6 of it's D and already has the most picks in the league, even before the Noel trade happens which is going to load them up even more. Hunt can very, very easily have this team ready for a cup run next year. He doesn't need to do any serious upgrades on D/G (just minor ones) so he can afford to get 4-6 elite forwards with how many picks and the rookie first rounder to trade next year. He also has an open import spot coming up and he's been great at getting impact guys in that draft.
Hunt has way more picks now than he did in 2015 where he added Mermis/McCarron/Mistele/Pederson (and Cirelli/Lindberg in the offseason).
He also has almost double the amount of picks that Guelph had last year and they added 3 Canada World Juniors players and another elite D-man