What in tarnation
Rejoint: oct. 2017
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I can think of 3 problems why this 3-way trade doesn't really work.
1) I can't see any team taking that Parise contract without shedding another one. Taking a very big and risky contract for a 35 year old player seems unwise to me
2) and With Staal's NMC MIN has to protect him in the expansion draft, and since they're most likely protecting 4 D-men (Suter, Spurgeon, Dumba, Brodin/Soucy regarding of whether they re-sign Brodin in-season or not), this leaves two forwards to be protected. Zuccarello and Staal are must-protects. There are pretty many players they should be protecting instead of Jordan Staal. This way I get trading Parise because they're in the same boat with that contract - then again I'd suggest MIN buy that contract out
3) despite having a bad season, Gardiner is probably the most valuable of the package going MIN's way, which is a problem because there's no way they can protect him...losing him for free isn't really a viable option. Even if he actually waived his M-NTC for Wild in the first place.
The trade value is ok, but the forthcoming expansion draft makes this pretty impossible to work out.