No worries and I don't take things personally and in this case, I don't have a rooting interest in either of these teams, just moreso as a fan of hockey.

But for ****s and giggles (and totally hypothetical)...maybe Lou has offered Raty and a 1st but the Yotes are holding out for more which is why the deal hasn't gotten done yet. We will never know since Lou is tight lipped but something has to be in the works between Kadri, Dobson, Romanov, etc.

When they are more serious about moving him I think they get like two thirds of their current ask: A top prospect+ a 1st or a good prospect+ a 1st and 3rd.

It’s so hard to tell. For every kid who is just dominating less developed players there is an Anders Lee or even Mark Stone. I’m not even saying that’s what Dufour is. Just saying there r lots of bigger forwards who r late bloomers.
Also Dufour can PK and play center at the junior level which makes me feel a little better about his all around game.

Yea Buffalo has a similar prospect in Olivier Nadeau. Plays a very well rounded game, and had a pretty good D+1 season. Whether that becomes anything or not is just a huge question mark with how his goal scoring spiked this past season.

Yea Buffalo has a similar prospect in Olivier Nadeau. Plays a very well rounded game, and had a pretty good D+1 season. Whether that becomes anything or not is just a huge question mark with how his goal scoring spiked this past season.

Yeah that’s probably right maybe a tad more like a top pospect, first, and third or first, good prospect, and decent young player. Adding Bailey complicates the deal cause he probably has a negative value at this point. If you’re not including a 2023 first or raty then there really isn’t a good centerpiece in the trade for Arizona to bite.

Talk about cherry picking stats lmao. Brock Nelson has scored 205 goals in 676 regular season games, which works out to a 0.303 G/GP pace, or 24.8 goals over an 82 game season. Kadri on the other hand has 219 goals in 739 games, which is 0.296 G/GP, or 24.3 goals per 82 games.

I've got no horse in this fight, but to frame Nelson as this money in the bank 25 goal stud and Kadri as the guy who has only hit 20 goals 4 times when they've scored at essentially the exact same pace over their respective careers is a pretty weak argument.