Now you have to do this with the Ducks and title it, "Deal with the Devil"

Put yourself in Anaheims shoes and answer the question of why we do this deal?

We get two cap dumps, retain as near as makes no difference 50% on one of our top goal scorers, and top faceoff man for 1.5 seasons, ship out a trade chip worth a mid round pick on his own, and our prize is Bahl, Boqvist, and a future 2nd in whats shaping up to be a kind of sh*t draft?

Lets say Bahl is worth Kulikov and a late pick in value and set that aside.

Rico with 50% retention is worth a 24 2nd and a B or better prospect next season as a pure rental, adding a full season of additional retention is going to require the 2nd become a 1st or the B prospect to become blue chip to get this deal done.

And just leave Bernier on LTIR.

We will see you next tdl for Rico, thx bye

Your first will be late this year, so our counter is Henrique with the full 50% retention ($2,912,500) and our 2023 third for your 2023 first.

Kevin Bahl is of slightly less value to us than most teams because we have Simon Benoit and Colton White behind Cam Fowler as a stopgap this coming season before we bring in Pavel Mintyukov and Olen Zellweger in 2024-2025 (if not sooner) on that side, so I'm not sure that we give you more than Kulikov and a fourth for him. Taking Jesper Boqvist as the prize for relieving you of Andreas Johnsson isn't all that appealing to us because it consumes two roster slots.