Hellebuyck is better and cheaper, so why would Winnipeg do this?

3 extra years on a contract and Tbay swaps Draft picks or prospects.

Still not worth it from the Jets. It’s a lateral move at best while adding $3M+ in cap that they don’t need to add.

He's certainly cheaper but he's not better. He's also not that far behind if at all. Not worth it for Winnipeg

I like it all!!! This all totally makes sense. The conversations should be easy:

1) "Hey Winnipeg, let's swap goalies. You take our guy who costs $3.3M a year more than your guy, but isn't as good, straight up"
2) "Hey Jersey, we're desperate for cap space, so we'll give you an aging star who earns four and a half million per season for your first round up and coming kid."
3) "Hey Craig Oster (Cernak's agent). We signed a lot of bad contracts in the past, so we'll need you to take much less than market to help bail us out, while your teammates get paid at or above market"
4) "Hey Pat Morris (Cirelli's agent...and a pit bull), would you mind helping us out here? We need to make sure we can pay other players more, so can you ask your guy to take less?"

I really like it!!

I could hear an argument they are comparable but I think you may have a little bias in saying Vasi > Hellebuyck. They’re both recent Vezina trophy winners but one doesn’t have a great d-core or Selke center to help him. Hellebuyck single handily carried that team last year.

We'll keep Foote

Oh yes they will...Jersey would need to see a lot more than Killorn coming back in order to part with Foote. Not that Killorn isn't a good player, but Jersey isn't a 'win now' team, and is smartly setting themselves up to be a strong contender in 3-4 years. Killorn takes away a spot from a young kid developing, and his contract is over when Jersey is starting to compete.

All true....but I did make the team fit under the cap.

Trading Vasey is the contract the Lightning need to rid themselves, before that damn NMC kicks in.

Hehehehe!! Yes you did!! No easy task there!