Quoting: Kyle_Davidson
Chicago is looking for quality in a DeBrincat trade… something that is going to give us a good foundation to our rebuild. The Hagel trade was more about the quantity of assets coming back than anything else. Hypothetically could OTT beat NJD in a bidding war for DeBrincat… because I like the package of Holtz + 2nd overall way more than this one.
I don't see NJ offering Holtz and the 2OA, but the Devils also have the money he is going to want in an extension.
Quoting: ReelBigFan
I have a feeling the package would need to include Lodin, Ostapchuk, Lassi and a first
The sens are in a position to easily out bid anyone for this player, have cap to sign an extension, still have a decent off-season, and not fully dry out their prospect pool… to me, they make the most sense… could probably dump White and Zat in the deal as well.
This is the real question here. While the Sens have the parts to make the trade no problem. I would not include Pinto, but any combo. 2022 or 2023 1st. 2022 or 2023 2nds, Thompson, JDB, Lodin, Ostapchuk, maybe Greig.
But the question is what is it going to take to sign him long-term and can the Sens afford that and still sign the rest of the Core long terms with Norris, Stuztle, and Sanderson, and probably a different goalie to compete. Let's say just for doing the math I see Norris at 8 per, say Sanderson at 7, Stuzle could very well be more but let's say 8 again. Even if the numbers don't seem right they are ball park. After that, you have the following
Chabot, Sanderson, Norris, Brady, Batherson, and Stuzle are all costing a total of $45, which is already half the cap, If Debrinkcat takes $9-10 per to sign long-term (2 40-goal seasons at 24, he well has rights to enter any negotiation there) then your leaving only around $30 mill to try and get a full bottom 6, bottom 4 D and goalies in, your gonna start running into real cap issues like the leafs have now.
I would love to see the Sens pull it off and they have the assets to do it, I just don't want to see good players leave the team and prospects leaving because the Team mishandled the cap, and when this group is in their window can't get over the hump because of cap issues.
Lets also not forget this team can't even spend up to the cap right now! so until the ownership issues are figured out and they can cap spend then this really won't work.