Modifié 8 sept. 2022 à 9 h 34
Quoting: jonh514
Edit: and if they send a few players to the AHL who are not in the starting lineup anyway... They can afford this deal.
It's still a longer term financial issue, not to mention the market right now is not going to let you make a trade with this much cap discrepancy - MTL would need to add. It is also a roster issue - we have plenty of T9 Fs as is, young guys who need playing time. Blankenburg is still waivers exempt, so I'm not worried about him needing playing time as compared to Peeke, who I think still has room to grow into, like you said, a solid middle-pairing guy.
Maybe he gets flipped in a year or two once Jiricek/ CC are ready, or if Blankenburg turns into what the coaches think he can be; but, until then, D depth/options isn't a bad thing. Moving him would require someone pushing an over-pay.
Frankly, Dvorak is a guy who consistently strikes me as...
fine. In terms of "insulating the young guys," that would need to be in the form of a 1C, and for as fine as Dvorak is, I don't see him as the sort of bona-fide 1C whose play would be eminently better between JG and Laine than Roslovic or Jenner would be.