Proposal: Potential Draft day trades?

Guitpik

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Picks most likely not available: New Jersey, NYR, Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo, Vancouver
50/50: LA, EDM & ANA
Pick most likely to be traded: Colorado

I doubt the Kings are in trade mode, without an insane over payment. Their goal is to get younger and they need young, higher end talent. They have three picks in the top 33 to kick off their rebuild.
 
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Djp

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To Oilers or Buffalo:
- Chris Kreider
- Rangers second 1st round pick (Jets Pick, will be between 18-21)

To Rangers:
- Oilers/Buffalo 1st round pick
- 2nd Round Pick (maybe 3rd instead if the pitchforks come out)

Between Oilers or Buffalo, who is ready to acquire a fast, impact player and finally stop adding more prospects who can be years away from making a impact. One of these teams need to make a serious push for the playoffs next season after years of rebuilding.

Right now WPG is 22. It needs teams to advance to the conference finals below them to move up.

Not doing such a deal for a player 1 yr from UFA iirc. If there was 3-4 yrs if team control and they pkayer was 23-26 then it would be seriously considered.

The difference between 7 and around 20 is HUGE. Top line pkayer/ top pair pkayer vs 2/3 line rwerner or 4/5 Dman.
 

Djp

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Caufield is most likely going to go in the top ten. I don't see any assets that would allow the NJ Devils to acquire another top ten pick.

Picks most likely not available: New Jersey, NYR, Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo, Vancouver
50/50: LA, EDM & ANA
Pick most likely to be traded: Colorado

New Jersey would have to trade Hall to get a top ten pick. No one else on the roster who is older contains much values.

With Buffalo..it depends.

It depends who is there
They could move down to 9-13 and pick up a player who can play now.

They will not move down to late teens or 20s
 

Djp

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Winnipeg pick will be 19 or 20, the 28th will be the Dallas pick if they win 5 more games. It's a hypothetical for now.

At least start correctly

WZpG currently is 22. It moves up if teams below them gets to the conference finals.

If you get a colo-vegas, and dallas-st louis match up guarantees a move down.

Only Carolina and Columbus are below them in the east.
 

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IF Chicago holds on to 3OA pick AND takes Byram, I think they make a draft day trade to move Gustafsson for a first round pick before his value risks dropping.

Between Byram, jokiharju, boqvist, beaudin, and krys being all potential players to make the opening night roster gustaffson becomes expendable

Either way, if Gus has a bad season this year, his value drops and he's still likely going to get paid too much to have a down offensive year being an offensive specialist as he is a pending UFA

Conversely is he has another massive year, Hawks might get roped into giving him a $6+ mil contract which they shouldn't do

At some point bodies need to get moved for the youth and with 2 & 7 not looking to go anywhere any time soon, Murphy shouldn't be moved because he's on a very good contract and was our best defender

How many 19 and 20 year old defensemen do you think the Hawks can have in the lineup and still be competitive for the playoffs? If the Hawks are making that kind of extreme commitment to youth on the blueline, I am not sure why they are keeping Toews and Kane.
 

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I like Martinez, but he plays RD mostly and Habs need someone better at moving the puck. I do think 15 will be moved in a deal for either LEddy or Fowler though

He does not play RD anymore. Martinez came into the NHL as a LHD that played the LD side (paired with Greene). After the Voynov situation and the elder Dman retired/moved on the Kings didn't have anyone to play the RD side. Martinez being a versatile Dman stepped up to play the RD as a LHD (paired with Muzzin) to cover for Voynov. After some Kings RHD prospects stepped to the NHL (LaDue, Walker, & Roy) Martinez bounced back to the LD side for this season.

I get why Montreal wouldn't move that pick for Martinez alone. He's older than what they want. They don't know if they should try and contend with their "core" or go with the youth movement/retool, so they might keep the pick or they could sell it for a needed player
 

Blaine8797

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To the Oilers: Mikhail Vorobyov
To the Flyers: Edmonton's 3rd round pick
Value is probably there and vorobyev does have some promise just needs to work on his work ethic a bit, but I don’t see flyers doing it as they’re looking to get some veterans on the team so they could package vorobyev for a player if they were putting him on the block
 

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How many 19 and 20 year old defensemen do you think the Hawks can have in the lineup and still be competitive for the playoffs? If the Hawks are making that kind of extreme commitment to youth on the blueline, I am not sure why they are keeping Toews and Kane.
Nobody said Chicago is competing for a cup next year but at some point they need to get pro experience if they are to live up to their pedigree.

Either way, Chicago is not an off season blue line overhaul away from the cup. It's about maximizing the twilight of toews and Kane in a reasonable manner and bridging the future

No one is saying we try to roll out a top 6D of beaudin, jokiharju, boqvist, Byram, Keith, and murpy and off we go en route to a cup
 

Brett44

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If Chicago pick Turcotte or Cozens with #3
Avs will be ready to trade #4 pick for a team who want Byram.
Some proposition
1 - To Detroit for #6 and # 35
2- To Edmonton for #8 and Benson
3- To Montréal for 1st 2020 and Drouin(add for Avs ).
 

Avs44

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If Chicago pick Turcotte or Cozens with #3
Avs will be ready to trade #4 pick for a team who want Byram.
Some proposition
1 - To Detroit for #6 and # 35
2- To Edmonton for #8 and Benson
3- To Montréal for 1st 2020 and Drouin(add for Avs ).

No I really don’t think they would, honestly. I think they’ll just draft their BPA / best fit. Colorado already has two 1sts, their own full set of picks, and the first pick of the third round from Ottawa...I don’t think they’re desperate for more picks, and they certainly wouldn’t be interested in 2020 picks when they want to win asap. I think the organization will be looking to get someone who can help sooner rather than later...and at #4 they can take their pick of the sizeable group of prospects that are all in contention for spots 3-9/10 or so.
 
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Markstrom for Carolinas 1st and 3rd round picks.

Uh no. Markstrom's not worth that.

Also, Canes probably just resign Mrazek or find another buy-low FA option to play goalie while they figure out if they have a solution in-system in Nedeljkovic, Booth or Helvig.

Or...they take Knight if he falls to them.

All better options than paying #21 and #83 for Jacob Markstrom, who is 29, inconsistent year-to-year, and at-best the epitome of league-average.
 

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If Chicago pick Turcotte or Cozens with #3
Avs will be ready to trade #4 pick for a team who want Byram.
Some proposition
1 - To Detroit for #6 and # 35
2- To Edmonton for #8 and Benson
3- To Montréal for 1st 2020 and Drouin(add for Avs ).


Holy f*** every single one of those trades are absolutely awful. Good lord.
 

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I would love for the Blues to get back into the 1st round. We haven't much to offer, unfortunately. Would Jake Allen and a prospect not named Bokk or Kyrou do it?
 

Scintillating10

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Not a chance. You could maybe move up as high as 3rd if Chicago isn't married to any one particular in the 3-12 range. 1oa and 2oa aren't moving though.
Well that is most I can offer. If we could acquire the 8th, be a Dach or Turcotte. The 15th be a Broberg or a Caufield. Kakko is not worth anymore
 

Brett44

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Holy **** every single one of those trades are absolutely awful. Good lord.
1st Difference between 4 and 6 is slim (don't Forget if we do this trade because Détroit want absolutly Byram and Avs not.)the 35th pick is almost free ,Cozens=Dach=Krebs

2nd still i do the trade if Edm. want absolutly Byram, Benson is a Landeskog 2.0 (if he stay healty)we still have a choice between 1 whl guys or Zegras

3nd i bet then Montréal Will be low 5 teams in nhl next years and the pick Will be ready 2020 like our first this.year. May be Drouin is too much .but i come from Q and i like do some provocation To the habs fan.
 

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