kerrabria
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My favourite part is offering 10th overall to take Demers and Jokinen! Lmao good stuff bro
You know that the Islanders paid the 15th OA pick, a 2019 2nd Rounder, and a C-Grade prospect in exchange for Vegas also taking back Mikhail Grabovski, an LTIR player with 5m AAV (6m salary on the year left on his deal), and selecting Jean-Francois Berube (an AHL goalie) in the expansion draft instead of Bailey, Nelson, Strome, de Haan or Cizikas, all of whom were exposed.
And the Blue Jackets paid the 24th OA pick, and a 3rd Round pick in exchange for Vegas also taking back David Clarkson, a player with 3 years left at a 5.25m cap hit, and for Vegas selecting between Karlsson/Calvert and leaving Ryan Murray, Josh Andersson, and Korpisalo alone.
As for us, Jokinen was coming off of a 28 point season in 68 games and had lots of experience and dependable play under his belt. Retained down to a 2m he would have been worth it to a lot of teams, let alone an expansion team needing wingers. Demers was a highly coveted free agent the year prior to his down year with the Panthers, a down year in which he had had 9g and 28p at a cap hit of 4.5 AAV for 4 more years. And assuming we had protected: Barkov, Trocheck, Huberdeau, Bjugstad, Smith, Marchessault, Sceviour, Yandle, Ekblad, Petrovic/Pysyk (Matheson, Malgin and McCann exempt) the players Vegas would be choosing from would be Demers, Pysyk/Petrovic, Jokinen or MacKenzie.
a first round pick was the going rate to eat bad salary. a top 10 pick in the draft possibly gets that deal done. It's certainly not unreasonable.
Actually, now that I think about the situation more, maybe we wouldn't have even had to entice them with the 10th OA. Considering how much better off we were than CBJ or NYI and the price they paid, maybe we could have gotten it done (Getting them to pick Demers over Pysyk/Petro and gift them a retained Jokinen) for like 2 2nd Rounders.
Let’s be honest no one thought he was a 30 goal scorer and thought he would probably cone down to 20 ish goals. Go read our boards at the time
Yeah, most did think he was gonna come down to be about a tenacious, 20g forward who hopefully wouldn't command a huge contract. But the difference between thinking he'll be a dependable 30 goal scorer and thinking he'll be a dependable 20-25 goal scorer is not the difference between exposing him to expansion and not. C'mon now.
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