Why are the canes spending assets just to be in the same position next year with Jones? They can just spend the cap you’ve created here to keep Dougie.

I'd rather bring Martinook back than McGinn

I like this a lot, especially dropping Hamilton and bringing in Jones. The only thing I would tweak is to bring Martinook back. Other than that, good job on this!

Hamilton > Jones and Jones will cost just as much as Hamilton to resign.

lol no

To me, it makes no sense to pay the high cost for one year of Jones when you can just re-sign Hamilton for just cap space, albeit a bunch of cap space.

prefer a dman who is not a liability

Targeting Jones kinda goes against the analytics reputation Carolina has. Also, who would run the power play?

Slavin. He is underrated also on offense and should run a PP. If not Slavin, Jake Bean

I'm not 100% up to date on those two prospects, but what info I can find suggests that that's not nearly good enough for a Jones trade, especially an in-division one. We need at least one top-quality bluechipper plus another quality future if we're only doing picks and prospects.

You’re gonna hate it when they sign Barrie for $6M…heh.

Seems like a theoretical based on *if* dougie leaves

Jones 1 PP
Bean 2 PP
Slavin in case

But then they’ll just be in the same situation next year. Use those assets for a longer term player.