Uhhh why are we giving a first to take on Hossa?

Haha Andersson for Stephan comes back full circle.

He wants to play black jack

because he's a top player in the league!

ARI would need to retain 50% on Stepan for the Rangers to consider it. Too much cap hit

Your most realistic deals are the Rangers (if Arizona retains more, still a maybe) and Edmonton (maybe). The rest very likely say no, with Vegas 100% saying no.

The Oliver Ekman-Larsson trade doesn't benefit Edmonton one iota, Edmonton has their own cap issues they can't afford to take on Ekman-Larsson's whole $8.25m salary without similar salary going back would need to be one of Klefbom/Nurse+Neal+Russell as a cap dump for them to take on that contract. And Benning already said he's not adding sweeteners to Loui Eriksson so they're stuck with him.

Logic I believe is LTIR to Vegas getting 1 year of not having to move a key player to sign Pietrangelo . One year cup run and then trades next off season after Seattle expansion draft. It is a little expensive but I can understand the allure

Per a Athletic article - Neal + 2020 1st for OEL

Well Toronto did that same thing with us last year and it was no where near a first.....

Nailed that Hossa trade for sure ...pretty much owed 200 grand after insurance pays the other 800k lol

Hard no from Oil. Not trading Bear. Oil are continually short on RHD and had to trade Hall to get Larsson a few years ago. If you want to move OEL it has to be either a cash dump from us i.e. Neal or Russell or a LHD but similar cash has to go out for the cap.

i could see the Rangers doing that deal at the deadline, if they need center depth and the Andersson situation hasn't gotten better. I still think they'd want to move him for a younger piece, though.