Quoting: AC14
I don’t completely hate this as a Blues fan. Not sure how beneficial it would be to us though. It’s pretty much Smith or Mitchkov there.
Quoting: BigBadBurke
Dvorak would be a fine stop gap at #3C for the next 2 yrs it really aint that bad is it
Quoting: mokumboi
Cap, dude. We are not adding millions in cap burden for Dvorak. There are loads of better options for far cheaper.
Doing this trade is an acknowledgement that the Blues aren't going to be competitive for another year or two. The late round picks are their best currency for acquiring immediate help, or moving their own inefficient contracts. The benefit is they get their best swing at elite talent since 2008, the drawback is that elite talent can't help them for at least a year (more so if it's Michkov).
If the trade off for getting in the top five is taking an inefficient contract back at a position the Blues need a guy, that's not really something I would lose much sleep over. If it's between Dvorak for 2 years and a top 5 pick or re-signing Noel Accari for 3 years at 2.5 million, not really a hard choice for me.
The reality is the Blues, under current management and ownership, are never going to go in a direction where they plan to not make the playoffs for a few years, and that's why this doesn't happen from their perspective. Also it's a pretty weak deal for Montreal IMO.
Quoting: BigBadBurke
but i wanna see a Buch-Alexandrov-Michkov line in 4 years so badly lol
*muppets voice* one of these things is not like the other