Rejoint: mai 2015
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Can I just say one thing?
You can't just trade players for picks like that. Its a cliche on this site that so many people do and its annoying. Some of those guys have value yes, but not in a "trade for picks" type of way. Except for Benn since he's already pretty cheap. Pending UFA's at the TDL are a different thing because the contract is almost over and teams are just bulking up for the playoffs. But with players with long term contracts......rare rare rare! (just traded for picks that is)
I don't think there is one single team in the league that will take Alzner for even a 7th round pick in 2025. Why? Because they know MTL doesn't want him anymore. Therefore they will make the price to take him off MTL's hands: NEGATIVE VALUE. Alzner may very well be still a decent bottom pairing guy that could help a team but convincing anyone of that is tough due to his crappy and predictable season. Its not about what you paid for him or what you think he's worth. Its about what is the market for a player like that. I'm no expert but if im simply going on what I've gathered and seen, I wouldn't trade for him under almost any circumstance unless another bad contract of mine was going the other way.
That also goes for the other side! Petry is good dman. IF you don't like him, fine. You don't have to like him. Trade him if you want but do it knowingly that he has value and teams would love to have a guy like that. Maybe not for 1st rounder but for another player you may like who is also good! Some teams have a ton of centers that they can afford to trade one for a RHD. See Henrique for Vatanen for example.
So do the hard work of actually trying to move those players for fair value and not just wishing them away and resigning a whole new set of UFA's to big contracts. In reality, we won't be able to do all this. Its virtually impossible. Some of the trades could work but simply trading 20M of contracts away for nothing is wishful thinking.