Interesting. Have to wonder how bad Arizona would like to have a 1st rounder back this year.
Dumba
Greenway
Rask
1st
OEL (2m retain)
Schmaltz
Why not?!
Actually, I think I'm in on this trade. Schmalz is a huge upgrade at C, even though he is not Eichel caliber.
Kap (7.5), Schmaltz (5.5), Zucc (6)
Boldy (1), Rossi (1), Fiala (7)
Foligno (3.1), Ek (5), Hartman (1.7)
Parise (7.5), Sturm (1), Scraps (1) = 47.5M for the forwards
Suter/Spurge (15)
Brodin (6)
OEL (6.25)
Addison (1)
Menell (2) = 29 for the defense
Lose Soucy in ED
Tlabot, Kahkonen =4.4
You are at 81M.
Obviously, in the course of the season somehow, Rossi and Schmaltz will be sometimes playing opposite lines. You know Parise will end up with some nagging injury for which he can be LTIR'd for like 20 games or something, which saves about 1.8M on the cap. DeWar can be called up for that.
The one thing against it is that it commits big $$ to our Top4 D for a long time, with no room to maneuver. Kahkonen and Sturm are the only 22-23 signings, so that fits, maybe, because there will likely be an extra 1M in cap space available.
Talbot in 23-24, but that's immaterial. And, after that, Zuccarello comes off the books.
However, I can't see Arizona actually doing it, because it essentially comes down to:
OEL <> Dumba at even salary
and then Rask, Greenway and a 1st <> Schmaltz.
That's not a good trade for them.