Hawks decline. That 2nd moves McGinn. If Pens want Domi too, make the pick the '23 1st instead

The goal is to keep the 23 pick, maybe you get 25, but seeing as there’s a good chance that’s a lottery pick might need a 3 or 4 back even tho it’s so far out

Same deal might get them Barbashev to so either way is fine with me, basically the same players to me so get the cheaper one

This is a really really bad idea.

Not sure the Hawks would wait 3 drafts for their pick. I'd say give Hawks another 2nd for Domi, but they were traded away in the AZ deal.

Gotta go for it now, a rebuild is coming no matter what, just commit to now and worry about building later, even if it doesn’t work the late 1sts we’re getting the next 3 years are unlikely to be speeding up any rebuild and they’re not helping now. In 4/5 years we’ll be a team just outside the playoffs even if the next 3 1sts are decent/good players in the NHL, we’ll be appreciating the end of the big 3s careers as they chase accolades like 2000 points, and give fans a reason to go to games while the real rebuild starts and hopefully they give us a few things to cheer for while we tank and rebuild.

Yea like I said I think McGinn, 2, and like a Judd Caufield can get Barbashev so if it cost more than that for Domi, just go get Barbashev, he’s bigger, cheaper, hits more ect, I like the edge Domi can play with and he is a bit faster and produces a bit more but Barbashev is solid down low, on the forecheck and adds what is needed on the third since he is good when playing C but doesn’t actually need to take FOs

There’s nothing to go for. This season is over. We have very little chance of making the playoffs. We have 3 games against the Rangers. We play Tampa twice. We play Colorado again. The schedule gets harder. Why would you destroy our immediate and long term future for a lost season?

That’s part of the reason I kept the 2023 1st in this and went mostly for guys with term or will be easy to resign, Bjugds would only cost 900k to resign, Barbashev maybe 3mil and valimaki 1-1.5 mil, these moves were meant to be for this year and the next 3, if it doesn’t work from there the oh well

I’m not crazy about trading for Barbashev given the down year. If we were to sign him in the summer that’s worth a gamble. I’m just not that high on Chychrun either. I don’t get the hype.

Chychrun is better than any LHD we have for sure, he’s very good and on a cheap deal, and since you have Smith and POJ you can afford to move one to get him and you have Pickering in the next 3 years so that lets you move another LHD then for him, but Chych is really good and a top pair guy rn with potential for more on a better team, POJ might have that potential but rn he’s a bottom 4 guy and probably settles as an ok/good second pair guy, Smith has elite offensive traits which is why I kept him, plus Chych is only like 24 so not like you give up youth at all, he just would be the best defender Letang may have ever paired with

Letang doesn’t need to play with an offensive defenseman. That’s what Chychrun is.

This is super false

What is false?