jimmyjets
Rejoint: oct. 2016
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With the Jets trade I see what you're doing. Taking the Arvidson trade essentially and giving us a 2nd and 3rd for the guy we'd likely lose in the expansion draft.
The issues from the Jets side are:
1) obviously this only makes sense pre-expansion draft and we only have 2 forwards that meet the exposure criteria (Appleton and Harkins) so trading Appleton means we need to find another forward that fits the expansion criteria somehow. Signing Perreault, Lewis, Thompson or making a trade to bring someone in. Not impossible to do but it's another thing to overcome for this to make sense on the Jets side. So for starters I'd need to sort out who the 2nd exposed forward would be and like the cost of doing that via signing or trade.
2) the other problem is that the next best player to take from us after Appleton would be whichever of DeMelo or Stanley we leave unprotected and those are both players we'd be better off not losing and I think we'd value at more than a 2nd & 3rd round pick as 1 player is a top 4 RHD that if we lost would mean we'd be looking for 2 RHD via free agency and we drafted Stanley in the first round and invested the time developing him so that now he's excelled in a bottom pair role but looks like he has more upside still. A 6'7 Dman in your top 4 is always a good thing too.
I will say, there are some players that may be there at 40 that likely won't be there at 49 so that 2021 2nd is actually pretty interesting to me.
In my view we'd need to sort out some other details on the Jets side before I could definitively say yes or no to this but while I can create some magic scenario in my mind where I would say yes to this, there would be a fair amount that would need to break right for it to make sense including striking a deal with Seattle on who they were going to pick or having a second trade for one of Stanley/DeMelo lined up for expansion exempt assets that I would also have to really like.
It would be a lot easier to just sit back and know that Appleton will be taken. IMO we can absorb that loss as we have in-house replacements that just need an opportunity like Vesalainen, Harkins, Perfetti, Luoto, heck maybe even Dano.