Well at least with Kane and Toews contracts expiring, CHI could afford that terrible QO awaiting on Meier.

BUT Debrincat's is something like $9.4M...

Meier's $10M.

This isn't bad from a value perspective but if the Sharks are trading Meier, we're likely committing to a rebuild. So in that case we'd rather the Hawks just keep Strome, and trade away small quantity of high quality prospects and picks back instead. A 1st+ prospects is a good start but I'm not exactly sure what prospects exactly since I'm not an expert on Chicago's prospect pool.

This isn't bad from a value perspective but if the Sharks are trading Meier, we're likely committing to a rebuild. So in that case we'd rather the Hawks just keep Strome, and trade away small quantity of high quality prospects and picks back instead. A 1st+ prospects is a good start but I'm not exactly sure what prospects exactly since I'm not an expert on Chicago's pool.

SJ probably declines, can't see Meier being moved unless its for picks.

Pass. If Meier goes it should be pure prospects, not downgrades on still decent players

Fair enough. Pretty consistent message here. From the Hawks perspective Strome fits. We think he has value, but the Hawks honestly have too many centers even with both Toews and Dach out. That's why he's in the trade. If the Hawks increase the pick/prospects...and SJS is rebuilding like this trade KINDA signals...would you be willing to retain?

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