McKenzie: Preds shopping Subban to clear cap space for Josi extension / Duchene

[Kamiccolo]

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[Cor]

 

[CupInSIX]

Last year
RHD: dream on, we're unavailable. This ain't playstation.
This year
RHD: I'm not leaving this draft with the same team.

 

[HawkeyTalkMan]

Lol

that subban/weber trade just looks like trash all the way around since it happened

 

[Drumman44]

Subban / Letang swap

Edit: People people this a Subban for Weber joke!

 

[Empoleon8771]

Subban / Letang swap

The Penguins get a worse defenseman and add $1.75 million a year? Sounds like a fair deal.

 

[herzausstein]

Subban / Letang swap

That doesn't accomplish clearing cap space to add Duchene or extend Josi.

 

[Frank Drebin]

Lets see if Poile can flip him for a 27 year old 1D, like he did with Weber.

 

[These Are The Days]

JBB get your ass on this NOW.....

 

[Cor]

Last year
RHD: dream on, we're unavailable. This ain't playstation.
This year
RHD: I'm not leaving this draft with the same team.

A lot of moving this year for them lol

 

[danielpalfredsson]

He will get a 1st rounder and a prospect.

Montreal fans will tell us they won the trade now.

Same bat channel.

 

[Curufinwe]

Niskanen for Subban.

 

[JoemAvs]

My prediction:

Jake Virtanen and a protected 2020 1st round pick

Basically what Benning is rumored to have offered Sakic to Barrie. But I think Poile would be more inclined to bite given his need for capspace and also be very willing to gamble on that pick coming back to haunt Benning.

 

[thethirdhockeyman91]

Looks like the PK Subban traveling show might continue

 

[Bringer of Jollity]

Subban / Letang swap

Preds looking to clear cap space...trade for a d-man with only a $1.75M less cap hit...

I trust McKenzie but was saying on the Preds board that unless we're prepared to take an absolute bath on the return value, it's doubtful we'll manage to clear more than $3M-$4M in cap space trading Subban. That still only gives us ~$12M to re-sign Sissons/Grimaldi, sign Duchene, and then make space for Josi's increase (probably ~$4M-$5M). We'd have to trade another piece that wouldn't currently be considered a cap dump (e.g. couldn't trade Turris, would have to be someone like Smith) while returning almost no salary in that deal to really make it work. I don't see Poile being that drastic. The low cap number pretty much killed the Duchene idea, I think.

Over time I'm also becoming a lot less enamoured of the idea of paying Duchene $9-$10M per year. Once he reverts to non-contract year form, we're looking at two 60-65 point centers with a combined $17M-$18M per cap hit, though I guess that's become the going rate.

 

[ChaoticOrange]

Larsson+Gagner+unprotected 2020 1st for Subban

 

[D3vilsH0ck3y]

Paging Ray Shero

 

[Roman Yoshi]

Put it in my veins

 

[Toby Flenderson]

Kessel for Subban makes so much sense

Nash gets a top line forward and saves cap. Pitt needs to re-model the D and this lets us move one of Letang/Schultz

 

[ThreeOfAPerfectPair]

 

[Meeqs]

Man if only PC was actually hired in Van already it would be so freaking funny to see him trade for Turris

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

None of this has anything to do with Josi. He'll have ~$5M pay raise next year. But the team has more than enough upcoming expiring cap space to manage that when the time comes.

But the Preds do seem to want to make a play for a UFA this summer, and to do THAT they will need to shed salary now, because it seems likely they will only have around $3M available without a move.

 

[webersshot]

He will get a 1st rounder and a prospect.

Montreal fans will tell us they won the trade now.

Same bat channel.

The sensible ones have always been telling you we won the trade.

 

[Pucker77]

First Leaf post to say:

Kapanen and Zaitsev for Subban!

 

[ManwithNoIdentity]

Subban is def gone