Quoting: OldNYIfan
I think it's' close -- very, very close. Make it the 2020 first instead of the 2021 and I think it's perfect for us.
I have one sympathetic objection. I like Carter Rowney because he's a real honest hard-working fourth-liner and he deserves to play every game. I'm not sure how much ice time he would get with that loaded right side. (He was the perfect RW for Derek Grant, and I'll never get over that trade.)
Thanks, glad to hear that you like the proposal. It might not have that one high-end prospect you want (eg. Timmins), but I figure that you still get an adequate direct replacement in Donskoi along with two nice future pieces in Helleson and the 1st.
I'd rather add a later pick or prospect than swapping the 1st to 2020, or just remove Rowney if that helps.
Maybe I'm just overly invested in scouting the prospects available around that part of the 2020 draft, but I get the sense that it's a deep draft with many players that would be good fits with this Colorado team. HockeyProspects.com thinks there's 27 "A" grade prospects in this draft, so a late 1st in 2020 should get a good prospect.
A 2020 selection will also yield a prospect who's likely to impact the team in 2023 (compared to 2024 probably) which works better for us as we're going to need some ELC's to fill out the roster in 2023 when Mackinnon, Byram, and Kaut get their new contracts.
Regarding Rowney, I figure that he'd be the clear 13th forward as we'd keep O'Connor in the AHL to refine his offense and PKing a bit more, so Rowney would likely get fairly regular action as chances are we'd probably have an injury or two at any given time, in which case he would just bump up to the 4th line. For perspective below are the games played by forwards beyond the top 12 this season (in a 70 game season):
Kamenev 38
O'Connor 16
Tynan 16
Wilson 9
Kaut 9
Megna 8
Dries 5
Bowers will likely get 9 games like Kaut did this year, but beyond that there's 92 games (or about 100 if you pro-rate it for a full season) worth of games to go around which Rowney would have first dibs on. In effect he'd primarily get those 38 games Kamenev got, at the very least, which seems quite reasonable.