What type of additions do people think they can make this year and at what cost to justify making those additions?
Would an 01 along the lines of D'Amico make everyone happy? A D similar to Corcoran?
Would someone like Porco be considered similar to D'Amico? Here's the cost.
2019-10-27 | SAG | Nicholas Porco
Ian Lemieux | TO | BAR | Dalton Duhart
OSH 2ND 2020
KGN 2ND 2024
SSM 3RD 2021
OS 3RD 2022
BAR 5TH 2023 |
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Would someone like Lalonde be considered similar to Corcoran? Here's the cost.
2019-10-12 | GUE | Owen Lalonde | TO | FLT | Michael Bianconi
FLT 2ND 2022
MISS 2ND 2021
HAM 2ND 2024 (COND)
FLT 5TH 2022 (COND) |
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Unless Rupoli or Playfair level additions are what people are talking about with depth additions, which doesn't really say we believe in this group.
If what I just mentioned, Porco/Lalonde type of deals then great. It won't put them over the top, may keep them in the hunt for home ice and getting to the second round but the question still remains, where do they recoup the picks for next year if that's the real goal? They can move picks from this year's draft, basically forego any 2004 draft class to get to the second round this year and still only have five seconds to make a legitimate run with next year while teams like ,Oshawa have double that and others will have more as well by the time the deadline is over. For Windsor to make a run they would have Playfair and Rupoli to recoup picks with which, if they can deal them may bring a 15th each or something along those lines.
So move a couple of younger roster players, multiple seconds to get a slight upgrade, hope everyone returns next year and hope a couple of second rounders puts them over the top at the expense of the 2004 and likely the 2005 draft classes so Windsor has no depth to rebuild with.
Those two deals are from this year, long before the deadline when there's at least seven teams buying big before you count Windsor in the mix so those prices are probably lower than what it will cost to get similar deals done.
Now if moving a couple of late picks is all people are willing to spend well we already Rupoli playing every once in a while so yeah, spend picks to sit a player who's going to sit makes perfect sense unless sitting the kids who are playing every night makes better sense.
There's an established pre deadline cost already set this year and while things can change, usually the price goes up and with probably at least seven teams already buying people thin bargain hunting will get it done?