Weekes: Senators willing to trade high pick or prospect to dump Nikita Zaitsev's contract
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My guess is either he heads to Chicago or Arizona.
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Akrapovince
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No imminent need to do this during the season.
If it’s a run at extending Cat, we can do so during the summer or at the draft where the value being sent out is diminished.
However, if it’s in an attempt to acquire a multi-year rhd in a subsequent trade, I am all for it. But as we all know, every team is looking for that and no one wants to give it up.
He’s going to Arizona or Chicago, and after hearing about the nixxed Matt Murray trade to Buffalo I am sure the Yotes or Hawks are in for a good haul.
If it’s a run at extending Cat, we can do so during the summer or at the draft where the value being sent out is diminished.
However, if it’s in an attempt to acquire a multi-year rhd in a subsequent trade, I am all for it. But as we all know, every team is looking for that and no one wants to give it up.
He’s going to Arizona or Chicago, and after hearing about the nixxed Matt Murray trade to Buffalo I am sure the Yotes or Hawks are in for a good haul.
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Myers seems logical. Saves Canucks 1.5 million a season plus Ottawa gets someone actually serviceable.
Myers to Ottawa
Zaitsev + 2nd
Myers to Ottawa
Zaitsev + 2nd
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Friedman has hinted many times on 32 thoughts or Marek's radio show that Myers doesn't want to go to OTT and may have already blocked a trade using his NTC.
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I don’t see Vancouver doing this.
I don’t see Ottawa either.
We want a blank slate defensemen, we will pay a premium to achieve that.
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As @Akrapovince states above, there's no big rush on this.
With new ownership coming in before his next bonus is due ($2m), there might be a desire to move him beforehand... but there might also be LESS pressure to do so given that the current owners won't be on the hook. Hard to say how that impacts things, but could be a factor.
Zaitsev had a really bad start to the season, but he was not our worst DMan after his return. IMO, with a healthy lineup, these are our "tiers"
Top 4:
- Chabot
- Zub
- Sanderson
Everyday NHLer:
- Hamonic
5/6/7D
- Brannstrom (?)
- Jacob Bernard Docker (?)
6/7/8D:
- Zaitev
7/8D:
- Holden
I would be disappointed if we part with any of these assets to trade Zaitsev:
- Ostapchuk
- Grieg
- Boucher
- Sogaard
- Any 1st
Jarventie or Kleven would be tough to swallow, but not the end of the world.
If we could get it done with a 2nd + one or two of Sokolov, Pettersson, Hamara, Roger, Johanssen, Merilainen, Daoust, Reinhardt, Latimer, Nordberg, Halliday, Guenette, Crookshank, etc, that would be ideal.
With new ownership coming in before his next bonus is due ($2m), there might be a desire to move him beforehand... but there might also be LESS pressure to do so given that the current owners won't be on the hook. Hard to say how that impacts things, but could be a factor.
Zaitsev had a really bad start to the season, but he was not our worst DMan after his return. IMO, with a healthy lineup, these are our "tiers"
Top 4:
- Chabot
- Zub
- Sanderson
Everyday NHLer:
- Hamonic
5/6/7D
- Brannstrom (?)
- Jacob Bernard Docker (?)
6/7/8D:
- Zaitev
7/8D:
- Holden
I would be disappointed if we part with any of these assets to trade Zaitsev:
- Ostapchuk
- Grieg
- Boucher
- Sogaard
- Any 1st
Jarventie or Kleven would be tough to swallow, but not the end of the world.
If we could get it done with a 2nd + one or two of Sokolov, Pettersson, Hamara, Roger, Johanssen, Merilainen, Daoust, Reinhardt, Latimer, Nordberg, Halliday, Guenette, Crookshank, etc, that would be ideal.
Keep in mind he has a ten team no trade list, could affect where he goes.
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For me personally, Hamara is in the same group with Jarventie & Kleven as tough to swallow.
It’s a good point in a vacuum, but he really doesn’t have a no-team trade list when his other options is going from chartered flights to riding buses across the country in a long grind.
Being anywhere in the NHL is much better than being waived to go to Belleville.
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It cost a 1st to move 1 year of Monahan and a solid NHL ready young defenseman to move Paccioretty. If you a 2nd and a B/C prospect will ever cut it I want whatever you're on
Maybe Connor Murphy heads back in a bigger deal.
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I would not mind but I would be lying if I said I’m not scared of the enormous return it would take to upgrade from Zaitsev to Murphy.
It seems like if we are shelling out that much, we should just shoot for the moon for a little bit more.
Murphy is a fine player though.
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Not sure what would be required. Also not sure whose on Murphy’s no trade list. Just throwing him out there as a possibility.
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Who wins the second round pick?
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Is Chicago willing to move Murphy? I feel like this would be the obvious move. Zaitsev + pick/prospect for Murphy, assuming Ottawa was not on his list of course.
Edit: in the time it took to write this it was already posted by others
Edit: in the time it took to write this it was already posted by others
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Seems like this nukes the trade. Even if he'd like to leave the Sens, the only teams who would take him are at the bottom of the league. It would perhaps be 5-6 teams, so an easy trade to block, and he would block those teams. Being on an awful team isn't fun
That is unknown if they would move him. Not like the hawks have any d prospects knocking on the door that are nhl ready and Davidson has said he would like to not rush anyone and drown them in minutes with a rebuilding team. But with Seth probably being unmovable with his cap hit and the NTC/NMC. Murphy and McCabe make the most sense to get decent returns for picks.
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Being in the AHL after not being claimed on Waivers isn’t fun either.
Chartered flights back to Chicago or Arizona is better than bus rides across the country as a multi-millionaire.
