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Boston… accepts!

Not giving up a first for Vrana

If the Leafs need to trade for Bortuzzo they are in trouble.

I think this is a pretty realistic approach.

Vrana at 1.3m would have immense value assuming he is scoring at his career pace per game and isn't missing time like he has been of late. I could certainly see hesitance to move a 1st for a guy with recent question marks, but you wont a better goal scorer that's affordable to almost every team cap wise and isn't going to cost an arm and a leg.

Kapanen, also fairly reasonable to expect a 2nd + a little.

Back and forth on Scandella, but that profile of player is typically traded for a 3rd-5th every year in volume.

Bortuzzo would be a great depth add for a team that needs PK support and veteran leadership + experience

I think we tend to undervalue Leddy and Krug's body of work. Their contracts aren't certainly ideal, but they have alot of playoff experience and Krug has a pretty special skillset on point production. Could realistically see something like this being benefical just to clear open roster slots at around those time frame. I don't think the Leddy deal is a back breaker though if we have to push him down to a 3rd pair role. However, he doesn't really do anything spectacular enough aside from skating to really need him for a lot of teams unless they lack a #4/5 LD.

Don't think Peeke would be a direction the Blues would go, but I certainly could be wrong. It's not really bad value for either team unless Hayes plays great here, then I'd expect a bit more.

Saad reasonable, but very dependent on what Pittsburgh does and what direction they go. Could see him to a number of teams that need a contributing 3rd line guy they can trust in almost all situations. Cap hit really isn't that unreasonable. Little high for a 3rd liner but certainly not back breaking.

I don't think the Blues will go the direction of adding a guy like Chytil who will probably progress into something more at that point. I'd have to imagine the plan of progression for Dvorsky is pretty tied to Schenn at the center position. Schenn will probably hold down the 2C spot until Dvorsky is ready, or they may go a route in which they look for a stop-gap 2C if they are contending by that time as a rental/short term option that they can slide down like what the thought process with Bozak was prior to Buffalo accepting the ROR deal.

I'm not sure i have as much faith as you do for Tucker and Perunovich to be long term pieces to the team. I think Perunovich gets a shot this year or next to prove something. After that I'd bet they are pretty hesitant especially if they can add a top end LD to allot cap to a specialist. Having a specialist puts alot of pressure on Parayko's pairing when Faulk is hit or miss in his own zone and requires OZ starts as is at ES. It's alot of the root of our current issues. It could possibly work if Perunovich/Krug are able to play more minutes with Faulk and you can run a pretty heavy defensive 3rd pair, which is what i'd imagine we work back towards next season assuming Krug isn't moved before camp which is fine by me.

It’s a perfectly normal trade deadline acquisition.


A 30 goal scorer at a $1.3M cap hit? Your loss.