Équipe: 2021-22 Avalanche du Colorado

Date de création initiale: 21 avr. 2021

Publié: 21 avr. 2021

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

I like the idea of Vanecek that I have seen in a few posts (and clearly it's destined to happen based on the history between these teams), but I think he should be a Grubauer complement rather than replacement. If Washington would take Francouz, who is very good when healthy but won't get taken by Seattle, then maybe a trade works. If not then just keep Francouz.

The other thing here is the Seattle trade. This stems from how well the Toews/Girard pairing has worked. If they stay together, then the team needs to fill that last LD spot. As such, keeping Graves would be ideal. I wouldn't pay through the nose to make this happen, but if it's not too expensive to steer Seattle toward Donskoi then it might be worth it. Add in the fact that Graves can be traded before his contract is up to bring back something in return, and it's almost neutral in terms of extra assets being given up. In short, Donskoi is just the easier loss for next year (IMO).

LTIR is just filled with guys I think have a decent to good shot at being part of the team's future (organized by position and not ranking).

EXPANSION DRAFT:

Protected List - (1) MacKinnon, (2) Rantanen, (3) Landeskog, (4) Kadri, (5) Burakovsky, (6) Jost, (7) Nichushkin, (1) Makar, (2) Girard, (3) Toews, (1) Vanecek. Note that Saad and Grubauer sign after the draft or at least after the deal is made to send Donskoi to Seattle.

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