So MN trades one of the best goalie prospects in the world for a guy who already passed through waivers and a 2nd? Easy pass

Lol. Devils say BIG no

A 2nd is what I think it should take to offload Zaitsev, but now you want to dump your cap dump on us as well?

Literally all of these are bad. Pretty impressive

The Devils aren’t the team that’s taking rentals right now, unless it’s a bigger talent.

That MN trade is nutty though.

Exactly one of these comes anywhere near the category of fair, and that's the WASH deal, which I highly doubt they'd go for. But geez, maybe if he heats up.

The rest are anything but fair, with the MINN one beyond brutal. Like... what?!? And expecting anything back for Armia's contract is also miles from fair.

Monahan costed Calgary a 1st to dump, now he costs a 1st+former 1st m to buy. What has he done in last few months to lead to such a big swing? (Net ~1sts?)

All teams have an easy No; some of them are of the "Are you kidding?" kind.

Puljujarvi is younger, better, and cheaper than Armia (even with the retention), and Edmonton can get out of his contract more easily.

With John Carlson's recent injury, Washington will be looking for help on defense, not at forward.

Hischier and Hughes seem to be working out pretty well at center; New Jersey doesn't need an expensive rental for #3C.

Ottawa might be eager to dispose of Nikita Zaitsev, but Jonathan Drouin is about the last guy they'd want in return.

The Wallstedt idea is intergalactically bad, for the reason mentioned above by @wabit.

(Also, Devils would do Johnsson + 2nd ++ for Wallstedt)

I can see what OP did here. You need the space next season to resign Cat and we'd need to move a contract to fit him, 2yr dump for 1yr dump.

Wondering, would you consider using Lassi Thomson to dump Zaitsev if there was a little bit of something coming back? Or just Thomson instead?

Perhaps, but I would have to see what other teams are offering.

Just trying to get creative with a possible MTL destination for Zaitsev.

Hypothetically what would you need to be receiving to make it Zaitsev + Thomson? With the notion that we would send an expiring deal like Drouin or Dadonov to make it work with our cap while giving you the space next year.

Would a Dadonov + Wideman return be close, enough, or am I out to lunch?

Dadonov is a pure cap dump and Wideman is an AHLer so they don't have any appeal to us.

I might do Zaitsev and Thomson for Drouin and a 3rd.

Fair, honestly wasn't sure which of the 2 was more of a dump.

Would rather send a lesser player/prospect than a 3rd but I could live with it.

Heh. Yeah... in their fantasies.

Armchair GM is pretty much the LOTR of Hockey Fantasy. So it sounds like we have a deal

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