My goodness the pundits in this province are terrible.

If we sell Klingberg it’ll be for top prospect/picks, not a someone who’s currently looking like a cap dump and if he continues the same pace he’s on, will be a cap dump.

Indeed, the last thing DAL should do is take in another aging defenseman signed long-term.

The only logic I can think of (and its really pushing it) is this.

Say the team wants to try and still make the playoff this year(thats a big part of this) but Klingberg in wanting out has become a problem. Looking at the pending UFA RD theres Letang (whos probably not available) then the gap after Klingberg is ......big. There no internal RD options in the system and noone you draft will be ready in a year. Which leaves Haakanpaa as the only RD.

Petry for the point slump he is in still has solid analytics. In the grand scheme of things his slump is pretty small relative to the previous 4 seasons where he was 13th in points among dmen. Stars management could think if he bounces back the got essentially klingberg on the contract they wanted.

This offseason if the market is at all similar to last year will be stupid for RD prices. Ristolainen may get Petry money on a 5-6 year term.

As crazy as it may sound If Klingberg isnt coming back that may unfortunately be the best replacement option.

As far as the trade goes the habs would likely be willing to take khudobin in the deal (which would allow you to keep the 2nd) and I could see a condition put on the trade that if the habs trade klingberg back to a western team the habs have to give up their 2nd (it would be around 35th overall so a decently valuable piece)

But even that is a pretty generous assumption

Yeah, not saying it's realistic, but that's how I took it as well.

Does Nill want to go full rebuild? Like you said Petry's contract is pretty well what they'd want Klingberg back at.

And Petry is a better system fit if Bowness is still there for awhile.

Arizona says: "No take-backs!"

I don’t know about that, Petry is right in the favorite age range of Nill. 😀