Quoting: PLDGEY
You pay a 3rd to dump Watson.
You trade Abramov/Chlapik/Balcers for something
Its wouldnt be hard to make it work, and the value of an extra first next year is worth it. Byron would be off the books before the player selected would sniff the NHL and it wouldnt hurt our long term prospects to make the space
"You trade Abramov/Chlapik/Balcers for something"
This is what every homer says!
Which teams are giving up assets for players that can't even make the Ottawa Senators lineup?
I'm not worried about Byron blocking some unknown pick 4 years from now, it's our prospects now he'd be blocking.
If Montreal does well, gets past the first round of the playoffs, which they should, then it's a bottom 8 pick in the draft.
These are the bottom 8 picks from four years ago
Henrik Borgstrom 58 NHL games
3LW Max Jones 89 NHL games
Riley Tufte 0 NHL games
3RW Tage Thompson 107 NHL games
4C Brett Howden 136 NHL games
Lucas Johansen 0 NHL games
Trent Frederic 17 NHL games
3C Sam Steel 87 NHL games
Four guys have roster spots, all in the bottom6.
It's just fantasy thinking you're going to recoup anything, and instead acquire a 31/32/33 year old, undersized bottom6 winger, that's in decline. Byron's cap hit is $3.4MM, that's a good 3C, not a declining bottom6 winger. 10 points in 29 games is a 0.345 PPG clip (28 points in 82 games) that's 4th line numbers, @$3.4MM per year, for three more years, when you can have a rookie at under $1MM get experience. All for a pick where the player has a 50%-50% chance to be a bottom6 forward in four years.
It isn't good asset management, and Dorion understands asset management. So you might take this trade, but I wouldn't and chances are neither would Dorion.