I honestly don't think they move him now...that 3rd line is playing great. Both Bura and Connolly are getting the puck to the net and Eller's 2-way play is fine.

The trade bait for the Caps is: Bowey, Lucas Johansen, Jaskin, DSP, Niskanen (if there's a taker), Barber, and picks

i prefer we keep him honestly

Puljujarvi stinks out loud.

This year Puljujarvi has two more points (9) than Burakovsky just put up in his last dozen games (7).

In three seasons, Puljujarvi has 17g 37p. In his best single season, Burakovsky got 17g 35p.

Everyone remembers Burakovsky's surprisingly bad start to this year, but he's back, and the third line that dominated Vegas is back. Convincing Washington to put him on the market would take an overpayment, like Puljujarvi and a 2nd.

If that happens, and there's cap sapce, then the NJ deal is a fine rental, as you have it above (Jaskin, Barber, 2nd for Johansson at 50% off), but Puljujarvi goes to Hershey to play with Ikonen in a low pressure setting, and hopefully get back on track a little bit, and Smith-Pelly dresses. Smith-Pelly and Puljujarvi look equally bad this year, but DSP's tournament success is more recent; Puljujarvi is still waiver exempt.

At that point, the Caps have the same draft picks they started with, they've lost Barber, but they've rented a slightly more experienced Burakovksky for this year, and then turned him into a higher risk/higher reward version for the fall. Could pay dividends, long term.... but the cost to Washington is messing with a great third line that is finally working really well together, again.

You nailed it, I’m not keen on Washington moving burakovsky but if they do I wouldn’t mind a player like Jesse in return.

Absolutely. Every team wants a player like Puljujarvi at the WJHC.

But people are lowballing he heck out of him while he's on a 12 point pace in his third NHL season: https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/1040199

Maybe Edmonton still feels his draft position gives him big value. Who knows. He'd be a very interesting project.

I made a couple little changes and posted it on the Edmonton side: https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/1040275

I'd rather keep Burakovsky, DSP, and Walker, but Puljujarvi and Maksimov are each such tempting gambles, based on performance in juniors, and I think you're probably right that MoJo or another wing could be rented pretty cheaply, with that cap space.

With Puljujarvi in Hershey, the above team has 2.5M cap space to rent a top four defenseman to play with Orlov. Could get someone decent, in that range. I think Orlov still has skill, but has been working hard on defense and not showing it, so even a freebie like Pateryn could help get Orlov moving pucks, again.

So I offered Bura, Walker, and DSP for Maksimov, Puljujarvi, 2nd, 6th. An Edmonton fan said to take out DSP. I am okay with that. https://www.capfriendly.com/forums/thread/201856&post_id=743759

yeah dsp wouldnt be terrible to hold onto and just hope hes a playoff performer like joel ward was

Uh.... I hope he doesn't take that big of a step back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yyWHQaSjXs