I'm not speaking for all of ESPN lol.

But Chris Peters is pretty knowledgable with prospects ....and Lundkvist just shattered the U21 SHL point record

in order of things in that barkov trade: Barkov >>>>>>>>>> Deangelo>>> chytil>Lundkvist>>>>either first round pick. this is a garbage ea sports type trade. this doesnt help florida in the slightest. Not only do they already have 4 defensemen over 4.8m for at least the next 3 years. adding deangelos pending cap amount to that while not replacing even minimally the impact he is in the nhl lineup is a waste of a trade. chytil is at least 2 years away from being an impact 2c if he even develops into that, looks like he has a good chance to do that. however yeah lundkvist has no spot in the lineup unless you move one of trouba, fox, or deangelo he is the odd man out of those 4 names. so again. cmon man do better.

DeAngelo played the left in junior and could move over if Lundkvist makes the team. It having 3 established players on the NHL roster doesn’t make our top prospect obsolete, I don’t see any way you can spin that one. Right handed defense is the biggest black hole in the league, there’s no reason to suspect we can’t trade DeAngelo or any of these guys (except Trouba because of his contract) for a great return without having to lose leverage because someone is the “odd man out.”

As far as fairness on the trade or what Florida gets back...if they are trading any of their stars away, it’s to cut salary and add pieces for the future, which 2 first round picks and 3 players under 25 exactly does. I’d argue that DeAngelo is going to come in similar to what Barkov makes so it doesn’t make sense to include him for Florida’s salary situation. Any time a team unloads a player on this end of the elite scale, they aren’t getting an elite like-for-like player back. It’s a salary move for futures. So, again, you do better.

Florida has no problem meeting the owners salary demands next year. None.

https://www.capfriendly.com/forums/thread/322691

The entire frenzy was started by moron Larry Brooks...I don’t anticipate any scenario where Barkov or Huberdeau are traded. I was defending the theory.

IF IM florida and im forced into clearing any sort of cap, im moving someone off the dcorp. im not trading my stud 24 year old center. Also lets not forget, hoffman and dadanov contracts are gone at the end of the year thats 9.1m in savings alone. you move one of matheson, stralman, yandle thats another 4.9-6.35 gone. Florida has plenty of players in the prospect pool getting ready to come up. cliff pu, heponiemi, tippett, borgstrom, luosarinen, denisenko, priskie... does their defense need some help sure? but trading your best player for basically rebuilding parts when they are paying 10m to bobrovsky? no shot. the theory is flawed. its an ea sports trade on a forum site. Its not anywhere close to realistic. Im sure you would trade panarin for an rfa about to get a huge pay raise, a prospect while an area of need is still hit or miss as he hasnt seen any nhl/ahl action, a center who has a decent ceiling but not top line, and 2 probably late round 1sts.

You missed the point

You are saying your prospect is worth more than what im ranking him as. im saying in a list of trouba, fox, deangelo, lundkvist. hes 4th on that list right now. at this point unless you move someone to left shot, he is the odd man out of the lineup. you dont have 4 right d playing. could he be better than everyone on this list sure. never said he was bad or anything. just hes not making the nhl over that list of guys unless something happens. Hes fine as a prospect but in terms of this trade, its not what florida needs.