ya as much as I love towes, Colorado isn't moving him for 2 rentals

That’s funny. Sakic literally hangs up laughing. That’s a joke.

2 rentals for a top pairing dman signed long term

Come on be serious

Avs decline.

Yes from SJ

Just a quick question, how do you plan to protect your Dmen?

Erik Johnson has a NMC, Makar must be protected, and you’ll only have one other spot to work with for Girard Toews and Graves.

Honestly that was my only reasoning for targeting him.

Johnson waives his NMC or they buy him out.
Sakic and his front office who are one of the best in the league dont trade for and extend Toews not having a plan in place for the expansion draft, its not like they just found out about

It Toews was a 1 year plan, why do they trade 2 2nds when there were plenty of UFA options available for 1 year deals.

Well they were able to acquire him cheaply.

I'm a little unsure about Erik Johnson waiving his NMC however. If your a long time vet on a team finally getting back to Cup Runs would you want to get picked up by an expansion team?

Bc they took advantage of islanders cap problem why they got him at the cost they did

All I’m saying is that clearly they have a plan for expansion in mind before and after trading for him, and it’s not giving him
Swat for nothing or letting him bring selected

And Ej isn’t going selected by Seattle at his age and Injury history

And if it really can down to it, they would do 8 skaters, landeskog mackinnon rantanen kadri Johnson makar girard toews. Burakovsky would be exposed and probably selected, if that happened they would just take bura money into re-signing Saad since there was no way to keep him before that