After Draft Shopping

Équipe: 2023-24 Red Wings de Detroit

Date de création initiale: 29 juin 2023

Publié: 29 juin 2023

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

Penguins Trade:
Pittsburgh frees up roughly $15m in salary this year and next while taking back two cheap serviceable players with upside making a combined $4.25m for this year and only Zadina and his $1.875m salary on the books for next year. Assuming the big 3’s window maybe has 1-2 years remaining, they use the cap savings to aggressively pursue a player(s) like Ryan O’Reilly and/or Vlad Tarasenko. Theoretically if all goes well the draft compensation required to move off of these contracts could end up being late picks in each round.

The Red Wings could certainly go without making a trade like this that will theoretically take them out of the running in next years fruitful free agent class after re-signing their own guys and having close to $12m tied up in Petry & Granlund who do not figure to be part of their long term plans. Would acquiring a 1st & 2nd be worth becoming unable to sign an attractive free agent next offseason?

Toronto Trade:
The Leafs certainly aren’t calling teams to trade away Topi Niemela but I’d bet they’re trying to move off of Matt Murray’s deal. Would acquiring two young defense prospects plus a top 40 pick AND dumping Murray’s deal be enough to pry Topi from Toronto?

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