Vegas defo does not make that trade... why dont they just trade Janmark and McNabb for picks?

No need for McD wingers, Hyman and Pulju fit well. Oil are more in need of another solid bottom 6C, or a big defensive LD to pair with Barrie.

Yeah, it doesn't make much sense. Vegas has a few options to free up cash and none of them likely require them adding "sweeteners."

Lol we’re not trading a first. Someone will be injured. Somehow. Someway

That Vegas trade is very heavily slanted towards Detroit. Vegas might need to shed cap before the TDL. 3 months is the conservative estimate for cervical disc replacement. .

There are a lot of picks in play that can’t even be traded. 1st, Vegas can’t trade their 23 1st until the resolution of the conditions on the 22 1st (not that they’d give up a first anyways). 2nd, New York can’t trade that 2nd until the conditions of which of their 2 are the higher. They owe Arizona the higher of the 2 between New York and Colorado. 3rd Edmonton can’t move their 2, they may owe it to Chicago based on playoff performance

don’t get why vegas would do that when they could just trade their players for the picks detroit ends up trading them for?

Not really considering we're giving up a former second round pick for a bunch of players we don't need or want (with the possible exception of Janmark) from a team that will be forced to move cap. No one's doing them favors.

Was just Random picked team anyways as was stated

Well then they can trade players like Smith and Karlsson and marchessealt or something like that cause I'm sure no one is going to pay for Dadonov with his decreased production over the last two seasons. They need to move almost 9M out the door. If they want to really compete they would be best to keep that second line together. Dadonov is straight cap dump for two seasons, Janmark and McNabb are just bonuses for trading Dadonov.

None of the picks matter at all as the teams were just randomly selected as I stated each player could go to any team.

Just a bonus for taking on Dadonov deal. I think he will be difficult to move.

Definitely heavily favoured but who wants Dadonov nowadays. And really they probably keep him on LTIR until the playoffs or next season, this was just a fun idea which would be a nice bonus for Detroit.

No worries, was just confusing because you specifically mentioned him fitting with McDavid.

It's the 1st that puts it over the top for me. I think they can move those players with out giving up a 1st. It won't be to the same team though. It would be nice to get that return for a cap dump.

Dadonov is still tracking at about a 45-50 point player. Will he be easy to move? Maybe not EASY, but they won't need t add a 1st or a top prospects to get move him out. They can find a way to move two of Smith, March and Dadonov without adding crazy pieces to get them out.