If you blow it up you’ve gotta trade Pietrangelo before Parayko.

The team can't trade Pietrangelo without his consent. Why would he move now? He just had triplets. You think his wife wants to pack up and leave her family behind? It's not happening.

Plus, and this is the real added bonus, if Army went to Pietrangelo and asked him to waive his NTC and he said "no", Army is now completely screwed. Pietrangelo won't want to resign since he knows Army wants to trade him. Pietrangelo then walks for nothing after next year. That's the worst possible outcome and it's not worth trying to move him to avoid that.

If you want to change the culture and “Blow it up” you trade Pietrangelo and you trade Steen. Trading those two will have the biggest immediate change.

You need to get more than just picks for Tarasenko and Parayko.. and EDM 1st will not be 10th overall.

Buffalo will give your 1st back with some added spice for either Schwartz or Parayko

Perhaps you don't realize that 1st round pick is top 10 protected.

Yeah I know that. But this team doesn’t have the cap space to really make a massive jump in 2020. Right now I expect that pick in 2020 to be 8-12ish

I say trade Petro, Steen, keep Tarasenko and dump Schenn. Tarasenko may not be the best defensively but him and O'Reilly are the only ones skating the entire game. It's not the first time Schenn has pulled the lazy stunts he did last night

That's always a possibility but if the Blues pick is in the top 10 in 2019 (which it looks like it will be) they will keep it and make a pick.

As a Devils fan, let's make this deal!

Eh, they have a TON of cap space after this season because Bouwmeester, Maroon, Bortuzzo and Gunnarsson are off the books. That right there is around $10m itself. With the cap going up another $4m they'll have enough. Plus they'll likely move one of Schwartz, Petro, Steen or Allen. Get a top 3 pick and then boom. Plus they're vastly underperforming this year. Quick re-tool and there isn't a reason they can't compete for the playoffs next year.

I doubt Hughes could take over 2nd line C duties as a rookie. I think he ends up as a winger, a la Marner/Kane