Who adds what?
Rejoint: juill. 2017
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Interesting, and complicated. All the steps make sense, but it might be helpful to evaluate gain/loss by each position, to see how the team has changed? Otherwise it's too confusing.
Defense: You've explained how Djoos>Kukan>Carrier. Maybe Carrier could play 3RD in fall of 2020, post-Gudas. But Johansen and Djoos play either side, and if Hershey doesn't plug in experienced guys, Johansen might finally get to develop? Of course a Johansen-Carrier top pair could move a lot of pucks for Hershey, and they're both still young enough to be defensive prospects. So that could come out fine, long term. Of course, if the Caps played Djoos with either of Carlson/Orlov this year, they could get him to 30 points. Could they afford his next arb award, after that? I don't know, but next summer a lowball offer on 30 pt Djoos might be Puljujarvi and a 2rd.
Goalie: Copley and Korpisalo each started 27 games last year behind terrific defensive teams that produced recent Vezina seasons for better goalies. Copley won 16 games with slightly better spct and GAA. Korpisalo won ten. Copley is CBJ's default starting goalie this year if the Caps promote Vanecek, which they totally don't need to do. You're already way under the cap after dropping Djoos and Stephenson, so CBJ has to actually give something of value. Davidsson gets it done. Kukan, not so much.
Forward: Port of the opportunity cost of trading Djoos for an RHD prospect is you have to stop talking to all the Detroit fans on here posting Djoos for Ehn+pick. If Stephenson is really cut (in spite of faceoffs, pk, and good playoff puck possession numbers) then Ehn becomes a decent call-up option this year, and his NHL experience means they could pencil him into the fourth line for fall of 2020, without any doubt. It's not great value for Djoos, and Ehn isn't any better than Stephenson so far, but he's got more time to develop, and maybe a big role in Hershey could help?
The Oilers would be better defensively if they gave Stephenson any positon in their bottom nine forwards, but they're obsessed with offense and youth, and probably wouldn't bother.
I agree with you that none of the options that other teams seem to like are particularly fair to Washington. Given the low rating their farm system is getting, adding some prospects might make sense, if it doesn't significantly hurt the big club. Ideally, they'd want guys with two or three years of waiver exemption, since they already have a couple guys they can call up right away at each spot and be fine. But maybe teams don't trade those guys? Maybe they should just go for picks, qualty or quantity.