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No from Boston. Value is perfectly fine but it’s the assets that are the issue. Namely, Puljujarvi. If the Bruins are to trade Pastrnak, it’s to begin the rebuild. And thus, Lysell or some other Right Wing prospect would be able to fill the role of Pasta in the top six instead of bringing in someone older. I know Pulju is still fairly young but you can see where I’m coming from. If the Oilers were to get Pasta, here’s a trade I could see happening:

Oilers get: Pastrnak at 50% retention

Bruins get: Dylan Holloway, 2023 First Round Pick, Warren Foegele (for cap), and a B level prospect or 2-3 round pick

I agree with your trade proposal but I highly doubt Boston enters a rebuild if they trade Pastrnak. It seems like Sweeney blocked this possibility by signing McAvoy and Lindholm to 8 years deal each. Plus it's not in the Bruins DNA to tear down and rebuild. They always try to put the most competitive team on the ice each year.

not necessarily. B's did go through a retool in 2014-15, 2015-16 while still having a top 20 dman chara, a top 30 dman krug, prime marchand/ bergy/ krech/ rask

they moved quite a lot of assets that had value for picks and prospects and then with the available cap they had went hard in UFA while also being able to develop some young guys during their 2 year no PO stint

so to think B's wouldn't take 2 years off and try to hit on one of the big centers these next 2 UFA's and then give some more ice team to younger guys to try and get something out of them isn't out of the realm of possibilites even if we keep Pasta. if we move pasta that just speeds up our retool slightly faster as we could acquire 2-3 big assets+ a few minor ones that could be future depth guys

Only way B’s trade Pasta is if they are out of it at deadline. And he flat out tells them he’s leaving.

If so replace Puju and 2nd with 1st and mid level prospect.

I fully expect he re-signs though.