Oshie making $6.5 million till he's 36? People complain enough about Backes and Oshie is just a younger RW version.

The trade with NJ doesn't make sense for them. You're trading a bad contract + RFA and they have to (more than likely) move back in the 3rd round next year.

ON3M4N: We have seen lots and we're going to see a lot more of these silly contract dumping of contracts on teams just so a team has enough of cap space to sign UFAs.

I actually don't think you're far off in the Oshie ask, but they could get quite a bit more for Spooner

Take the 3rd from us out of that deal and I think you'd be right. Jimmy Hayes has value, he's a potential 20 goal scorer, who turned into a pumpkin when he came home to Boston.

Ryan Spooner makes the best out of crappy situations. Having Beleskey and The Boston Version of Jimmy Hayes is Fing terrible for wingers. Those guys belong in a beer league somewhere. It's embarrassing to watch them frankly.

I'd rather roll out 2 4th lines with like Accari Kuraly and Blidh, Schaller Nash and someone else and be like, just go out there and finish every god damn check and when you get the puck you need to chip it in and chase the play. Wear them down physically until it creeps into them mentally. We've got tons of young 4th liner types. Just go for 2 energy lines.

Tired of Beleskey and Hayes dancing around out there doing nothing. Beleskey checks, but at nearly 4M I think i'll pass on him for our future. He's not here to play out his contract, even if we have to buy him out in a year or two. Get rid of these guys now, while theres some value. Hayes at 2.3M for 1year has to be attractive to some team. Beleskey we probably have to pay someone to take him.

Vegas isn't taking a turd contract that lasts 3 years for a measly 4th rounder. They'll get way better offers than that. For instance Buffalo will probably pay a 2nd rounder to take Bogosian. He's atleast twice the player Beleskey is and isn't twice the price in contract. The 2nd rounder is maybe 3 or 4 times better than your 4th depending on who you ask. Vegas will get deals from everyone, no chance they take a 4th for Beleskey, unless George McPhee stops working out for a couple days and goes insane, or becomes totally unmotivated. He's gonna hit the Gym bro and he's gonna get the best deals. You dangle your 4th rounder in his face to take Beleskey and He'd probably kick your teeth in. He's old but he looks like he could still take an honest shift in the NHL. He's not gonna take your garbage for crap offers.