Realistic Shatty to ANA trade

Just responded look at my post again. NYR aren't going to give up a first round for the next couple of years trust me.

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Good luck with that. They may retain salary our add a B prospect to move him, but they are still rebuilding, so not giving up a 1st to move out a contract

I disagree. Going after Panarin with such a huge contract and trading for Trouba, those were "we're going for it" type deals. As such, I don't think NYR is as tied to their 1st and you seem to be suggesting, especially one with conditions on it in case things don't pan out.

However, assuming you are right, fine! they won't move Shatty and they'll have to move other players, who are contributing more than Shatty (i.e. Kreider), to sign Trouba, Lemieux, Buch, and Deangelo. No team is going to help out NYR with their cap dumps. If they were, TOR would have gotten a much better deal on the Marleau dump.

Anyway, IMO, it makes little sense for NYR to go after Panarin and Trouba to try and make the team better, but then move out players they need because they don't want to pay the 1st round pick to move a guy who is dragging the team down, especially considering that they should be of the belief that said pick is going to be a late rounder because they've just improved the team so much.

Even retaining 50% would give you 11.3 M to sign Trouba, Buch, Lemieux and Deangelo. Trouba wants 8M, so that's 3.3 for Buch (20 goal scorer), Lemieux and Deangelo (30 pt D-man). "Good luck with that". Buch alone is probably looking at 3-4M.

I am sure TOR would have liked to add a B prospect to Marleau to dump his contract, but I guess that wasn't an option or they would have done it. This isn't the only option that NYR has, but if you are going to go the "move Shatty's full contract" route, it's going to cost a 1st round pick.