Quoting: glarson17
I don’t see New York or Colorado considering either of those trades. Toews is past him prime and not worth a 1st even with retention. Kane with retention could be close to that but I don’t see NYR moving Kakko for a rental.
Quoting: coga16
Meaningless games against teams who arent in the playoff hunt or already clinched etc. That is Never a barometer when teams and players have literally nothing to play for and going through the motions of the last month. His numbers are getting worse, hes not some dominate 2 way centre anymore, and the little offence he can create now does not make up for his decline defensively. Hes just not worth it. And hes no model leader and and off the ice now. The Beach stuff has tarnished that rep of his, 31 other fan bases would agree on that.
The season before Toews got sick he had a fantastic year, and the year before that he had a career season. He missed
AN ENTIRE YEAR AND A HALF, not working out, not skating, not playing at all, and then came back and put up 40 points in 21-22 on a CHI team that was playing awful hockey for most of the season. Most of which came in the second half/third of the season when he got his wind back started to get back in the groove and was playing at a 60+ point pace. If he plays anything like he did in the second half of last season, he should easily put up 60 points, win 60% of his faceoffs, and be able to shut down high end players. Considering all of that plus 50% retention, he should EASILY be worth a late 1st round pick or multiple assets of comparable value. So, if we can find a third party to retain another $2.625M of his cap hit and he is playing well, there is no reason it shouldn't be that much more enticing of an add for serious teams, even as a rental. This whole narrative that he is "washed" is just people looking at his stat line from 21-22 and thinking they know what they are talking about. But I think he is going to surprise everyone this year. In fact, I think the whole team is gonna surprise a lot of people this year in general. Which actually scares me, because we probably need to get significantly worse if we want a serious shot at a top 3 pick.