Quoting: JayTea
Here's the thing from my perspective: if Greenway finally shows some consistency, they're not taking Kerfoot over him and if he doesn't, Seattle can have him. Soucy was good (but not great) in a top 4 role, but not anything they absolutely need with Addison and Menell (who I think will be back if he's good in the KHL) under team control. Talbot? His contract was bad before the ink dried, so we're lucky if they take him.
I'd rather the Wild get whatever futures for Bonino to give them more draft currency to use or add to a package to trade for a 1C. He's a proven 3C on a Cup winning team, that will have value at the deadline.
I'm curious where Kaprizov will fit in the lineup, because as far as Greenway goes, I could see him being pigeon-holed into 3LW role next season if Kap or Fiala are on the left side. Not sure what that will do to his value, but I think I'd like to hang onto him. I agree Soucy isn't a top-4 defenseman. I think a lot of people overvalue how the Brodin-Soucy pair played with such a small sample size. I actually don't mind the Talbot signing, however I would've prefer like $3Mx2 rather than what he was given. Thinking Guerin maybe overpaid him so he can protect Kahk and Seattle won't select Talbot.
I guess I'm starting to think our window could open in 2-3 years. I look down the road and if Kaprizov is as good as advertised, Rossi develops into a top-6 center, Boldy can transition just decently from college and we're able to sign a guy like Danault, for example, we could be working with:
Greenway - Rossi/Danualt - Fiala
Parise - Rossi/Danault - Kaprizov
Boldy - Ek - Zuccarello
Foligno - Sturm/drafted C - Hartman?
Suter - Spurgeon
Brodin - Dumba
Soucy- Addison
Kahkonen
Talbot
Scratched: Beckman?, Menell
Looking at that, it'd be nice to hold onto most of those guys I don't want to lose. I just think a 2nd rounder we could draft thanks to a possible Bonino trade could be as many as 4-5 years away. Maybe I'm too optimistic about when we'll be ready to compete, though.