Modifié 10 août 2023 à 21 h 27
Quoting: ItsAlwaysSunnyInDetroit
Interesting. I couldn't think of anything less than Lindstrom to offer. Are you suggesting that Montreal should pay us for taking Petry?
Why are you sp intent on getting Petry?
He is not going to help Detroit win a cup, he'll be retired long before that is going to happen. The only thing Petry will do for Detroit is cost us 9 million in cap that we could much rather use to resign Seider, Raymond, Rasmussen, Johansson, and Berggren. What if Perron would like to stay another year, he'd be a much better player to spend cap on than Petry. Or what if Sprong keeps his scoring up? Are we going to drop him just because all our cap is tied up in a 36 year old defender? We have Tuomisto, Sandin Pellikka, Johansson, and Gibson as RD prospects that are going to be the players that, together with Seider, are going to be the right side defenders that we are going to win a cup with, Petry isn't in those plans and he doesn't help this team achieve that goal.
We already have 7 defenders on the team (8 if you count McIsaac). Lindström is the obvious choice for our #7 to sit in the press box. If you trade him away for Petry you will have to sit one of the others. Are you going to sit Gostisbehere? Or Petry? or Määttä, our best defensive defender last season? Or Chiarot, who have three years left on his contract? That'll raise his trade value. Or are you going to sit Holl, who we just signed to a three year deal? That will sure make all future free agents take notice.