Quoting: Koskinen_The_Great
Blues have one of the worst cap situation with long term deals to so many players including raises to Thomas and Kyrou next season.
With Regional Sports Networks going bankrupt.. The cap isnt going up much anytime soon. You're going to have pay to dump a lot of salary. You can say the 2nd is to dump Scandella that would mean Edmundson/Dvorak cost a late 1st. Hardly much especially with the Bues having 3 1sts already in 2023.. A lottery ticket, really. Mtl, most likely, gets a better deal than this but i went low.
They'd easily get a 1st for Edmundson at the TDL and their cap is fine going forward with LTIR on Price whos retiring officially and Gallagher's career in jeopardy.. The Blues have no leverage here. This is more to move out veterans for the Habs and give space to the young players
I don’t see why Edmundson has the value to return a 1st and Scandella is a dump. They’re extremely similar players.
You could genuinely argue all 3 players included are dumps. I’m being facetious here, but it’s not that far fetched.
I could see Dvorak being of interest, but not at the cost of a first. He’s a young enough guy it could be a decent reclamation project at a position of need. I just doubt they’d want to be locked into that contract at that term.
Given the circumstances I would rather the Blues sign Lars Eller for 3-4m for next year as opposed to getting dvorak for 2 seasons. I would probably pay a 3rd for him to take the chance he’s worth having a roster spot for while we wait for Bolduc, Dean and Snuggerud to earn the spots.
Personal opinion I would value all 3 players as the following at this point in time.
Dvorak 3rd rounder
Edmundson 2/3rd rounder
Scandella 3/4the rounder
Another point to your comment. You’re stating the Blues are needing to do essentially the same thing thay you’re trying to accomplish here. They do, but they don’t need to do it next season. We have like 8m in cap and really only need to sign 2-3 depth/4th line forwards and a 3C.
Switch Scandella to Krug and I’d do this. It’s not realistic, Krug isn’t waiving for Montreal right now. But that’s besides the point