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The only trade in my opinion that might be plausible is the Eller one. The rest are either never happening or the other team probably won't accept.

Chicago just had to surrender a 21-year-old high-end prospect to convince Carolina to take Bryan Bickell's contract. I don't see how Detroit's trade isn't plausible, as Holland is shopping hard Datsyuk contract to land Stamkos.

Desharnais for a 4th not plausible? Come on. 3,5M$ isn't much and Desharnais is a 50 pt per season guy. Wouldn't spit on that if I'm Arizona.

Also I don't think Edmonton is unrealistic, whether it happens or not in real life. I think the value of Subban deserves at least Draisaitl and Klefbom. As for Yakupov, he's been a deception right from the beginning. For De La Rose, young reponsible 2way forward, Hudon, 28 goals in AHL 15-16 and a 3rd pick from 2016, I don't see what Chiarelli would lose.

There is a big difference with Datsyuk's contract and Bickell's. Actual physical money being paid to the player.

The team getting Datsyuk doesn't have to actually pay any actual money to Datsyuk because he is walking away from his last year of his contract by his own accord. All they have to do is make sure they are within the salary cap because his cap hit will remain regardless of what happens but no money is being paid. I've looked this over like crazy and the smartest option is with Arizona. They purposefully don't spend up to the cap every year because of ownership spending constrictions. A Datsyuk for Pronger scenario makes the most sense without having to lose anything on both teams. Arizona gets a higher cap to reach the floor and doesn't have to pay Datsyuk any money in the process. It affects them badly in no way at all since they wouldn't need that extra space on the cap anyway because they wouldn't spend that much money even if they wanted to. The crux of it for them is that they wouldn't have to pay 575K of Prongers salary anymore which is actual money being paid out and the added Datsyuk cap hit (Which they don't have to pay actual money) isn't affecting the ability to spend money up to the cap because they don't need that extra space anyway. The salary cap could be 65M this year for Arizona, it doesn't matter to them, they are not spending the extra 74-65= 9M anyway. Detroit could then put the permanently injured Pronger on LTIR which will give them the cap relief of his contract entirely. Both teams win and don't have to do anything risky. This is a rare win/win scenario in which no picks/prospects/roster players are affected and they can both continue on their merry way as if nothing happened.

So why would they risk losing a potential star with the 16oa for Andrighetto?


Believe me, i would love nothing more then Desharnais being traded away for a 4th rounder. I'm a Habs fan. I'd do this in a heart beat. The problem is Arizona could get a player in free agency who could do the exact same thing Desharnais can do but they wouldn't have to lose a draft pick. They could sign Lee Stempniak to a 1-2 year deal at less than 3.5M and he would be able to produce just as much as Desharnais would and they could keep the draft pick.

So why would they bother making this trade?

I'd do the Eller for a 2nd rounder because it saves us spending 3.5M this year and next year. We'd also have that much more money to spend on a big name free agent player who will actually score more than 30 pts a year.

The Subban trade is enticing but I'm just so hesitant to trade Subban that unless Edmonton adds the 4oa, i think i would rather just keep Subban. Players of his ilk are so rare that you absolutely can't give up on them. Not too mention that we have a very shaky D-core with out Subban with no real super stud on the way to replace him. Subban is expensive but damn he's worth more then people realize.