OTT and Killorns ntc says no. TBL don't want Duke or they could have signed him, he's no good, and Zucc even retained is not worth all that.

lol i see you gave your rangers a little extra for zuccarello

Ottawa easily rejects that trade and asks for sergachev and point.

Ya they’re getting a pending UFA for 2 players WAY younger and almost as good

That’s his value. Turn to the trade where we fleeced u in the Nash deal

Maybe he has a ntc but that’s the value. TBL will take duke on that contract. Young fast forward perfect for that top line. Zucc is worth that

Uhhh Tampa never got Nash but ok

im a rangers fan

...and he's aTBL fan!

He’s a bruins fan

Ntc = mute!!! Zucc is NOT worth that! Duke is barely hanging on, he's no first liner, even in AHL!

Read my username

Omg true I’m so used to u having the other username cause u always comment on my stuff

5 stars for the trolling effort

Uh I only have one username

I'm not sure exactly what the purpose of the Duclair trade was. From the Blue Jackets' perspective, signing someone and trading them before they play a game on their contract casts a bad light on management and can lead to players refusing to take discounts to stay if they like Columbus. I'm not sure if that's as big a deal for them as it would be for a team with no state taxes or a Cup favorite, though. I don't know if Columbus even accepts, and I don't think it really improves the team at all anyway, considering Conacher's point production was better than that of Duclair last season.



And Yzerman just laughs. On paper, the Lightning's defense is already among the best in the League without Karlsson, and that should translate into results as Sergachev develops and plays more minutes, Todd Richards makes his changes, and McDonagh finds chemistry with the team. That being said, they do not have any legitimate shutdown forward who can make up for the loss of Point. Besides, Point is only 22, so he's only improving, and has been compared to elite two-way centers such as Bergeron. Karlsson is an improvement over Sergachev, but not enough to justify the loss of Point. Dorion probably wants Sergachev and Point, and may have been asking for them, but Yzerman would never agree to that, and would regret it for the rest of his tenure if he did (which may be shortened if he made more decisions like that). Karlsson isn't re-signing in Ottawa and wants to go to Tampa, so the Senators have to take the highest bidder or lose him for free next offseason. The Senators are a lottery team, not a Cup contender, so there's no reason for them to want to keep Karlsson the extra year instead of accepting the best return they can get. Since Karlsson is refusing to sign an extension until he experiences the city, that significantly lessens any potential return. The Senators will be lucky if they can get Yzerman to surrender Sergachev, and knowing Yzerman, Foote may be staying too. Everyone's going to say this proposed return is unreasonable for the Senators, and it's far from fair value for Karlsson, but nobody should be surprised if they can't get much more than this and 1-2 more picks. That being said, Killorn would have to waive his NTC for this, and I can't see him doing that for Melnyk and the rebuilding Senators. They could just give the Senators Volkov, Dotchin, and the conditional 1st, take on Bobby Ryan's contract, and give the third team one of Killorn/Callahan/Coburn, Bobby Ryan, either Raddysh or Katchouk, a 2020 1st, and a 2020 3rd in exchange for "future considerations", and that's how they manage the cap with this. I'm not sure if the third team accepts knowing the Lightning's situation, and that could be problematic since the Lightning aren't going to give much to facilitate a cap dump, but as for the Senators, they just have to take the best offer available. For a year of Karlsson without a guaranteed extension who could have been free the next year anyway, that's not necessarily a player like Sergachev, and it's definitely not Point (much less both). The proposals here all seem to be based on fair market value, but nobody should be surprised if the Senators can't get that and they end up with a deal like this that looks like a "fleecing" rather than a "trade".

But there's no way they do that trade with the Rangers. They can put Mathieu Joseph in that spot and be fine. If they get the Karlsson deal and subsequent cap manipulation done without losing Raddysh, then they're not going to trade him at all. Besides, they need the picks involved in that trade to get a 3rd team that Killorn is willing to go to.