Burnside article

Wings have plenty of cap space so retaining on boychuck does nothing to add to the value. It's boychuck + wilde + 2021 1st for erne

Anaheim calls Detroit and raises with Max Jones for Boychuk (with retention), Wilde and the 2021 first. See Kase for Backes.

Sure dude how in the hell can you afford to give Krug 6 x $7,500,000 with Barzal and Pulock needing new deals? Barzal will come in at around $9m per and Pulock at $6m or $6.5m per you'd need to move out a lot of bodies Krug isn't wasting his time in New York doubt Detroit has any interest in Boychuk either.

Isles organization itself has said for awhile they need scoring help and won’t stop talking about how great their defense is. If the Isles get 7.5m in cap space, they’ll look for Barzal’s winger. And all this hinges on Ladd going to LTIR, and while I think at least one Islander ends up on LTIR, we can’t COUNT on it happening. I get you’re just entertaining someone else’s idea here, but I disagree with that idea.

With Pulock, Mayfield and Dobson on the right side, I can't see Shattenkirk or Barrie. Krug is way too rich for our blood and also somewhat superfluous, although I do like his game on the power play.

My hope is that Isles management is more concerned with keeping Barzal, Pulock and Toews before going out and getting new guys, especially guys we don't really need like Barrie or will be way too expensive like Krug. Besides, our biggest needs are at forward anyways. If we somehow do have the means to spend big in free agency, I'd rather get a guy like Evgeny Dadonov or Craig Smith rather than another defenseman