Holtby is garbage, And Schmidt is 30 years old making nearly $6,000,000 for another 4 years no sane GM is helping out Benning out of his cap mess without sending back similar salary through cap dumps.

Well I sent connely who has 2 years left, holtby has one. That helps the hawks. Schmidt is still good.

Lets also remember Stan is not a sane GM

Yeah neither is Holland with all of these ludicrous signings, that Hyman contract is going to bite him in the a** some day.

canucks decline can get better return.schmidt is still a good dman and the real experts predict alot of interest in both players so we will see what Benning is made of eh.

As a Hawks fan I find something like this to be interesting. Holtby is a dump. So is Connolly. I'd honestly rather develop Kalynuk than take on Schmidt years 30-34 and that cap hit is rough. If VAN wants to send some serious assets. I'm in.

Hawks clearly aern't in the business of waiting to develop all our guys like kalynuk after that jones move. We have way too many bodies at LD but none are the quality that can log big miutes for us this year, which apparently is a win now year. Stillman, Kalynuk, Jones, Dehaan, Zadorov, Beaudan, Vlasic, Plus we just drafted 3 more big body LD types in this draft.

I think we have to though, due to the impending cap crunch again. One of them were going to HAVE to rely on.

We aern't in a cap crunch. Paying jones like 1.5 mil too much doesn't put us in a cap crunch.