Lets be serious now

The Staals are in there for my own nostalgia, but I can't help but wonder if GMDW is gonna try and play on that to get fans behind the idea of paying through the nose for assets at the deadline.

Bennett is the real prize here. I imagine that Carolina will ask for some retention seeing as how they have so many paydays coming up, but with his term and how cheap he already is, that will be sharply rejected.

Florida is ever so slightly hurting for 1st rounders, but that's kind of a sign as to what direction they're going. They aren't rebuilding, so any trade would have to include almost exclusively NHL level assets to go along with all the futures, especially for a guy like Bennett.

I imagine, like the retention, Carolina will ask for some kind of a condition on the pick (it's a 2nd that upgrades if the team does well) but that will be shot down. Bennett is at a position of need for Carolina and he's in his prime with term. You get bank for that.

This one is so close you could taste it. The only question is what the assets going the other way will be, and if I give a lot of thought to it, it's gonna be rich.

I think Carolina really wants to shy away from giving up anyone off their active roster. I know the other trade has Stepan & De Haan and this one has Coghlan, but those guys are depth pieces (or like Coghlan, a reserve) that are fetching replacements. I really don't think a guy like Jarvis or even Noeson (who has more points than Jarvis in fewer games and less TOI) would be going the other way and the rest of the roster are either to valuable as puzzle pieces or just can't be moved at all.