Quoting: thesaadfather
That’s the problem, we want another too 3 pick. The Hawks don’t have all their foundational pieces in place yet. They’re not ready to stop tanking, let alone ready to compete for anything. We’d just end up in no man’s land.
As for the deal itself, Nylander doesn’t fit the timeline of the Hawks at all. He’ll be 30 by the time the Hawks are ready to compete for anything. They have Hall to ride shotgun with Bedard anyways. AA is meh, but he played well with Reichel down the stretch, I’d rather hang on to him for now. Murphy is a better fit than Brodie. Younger, RD with term to help mentor the plethora of LD the Hawks have coming up.
I surely don't disagree with your points...with the way Nylander plays though (notice he almost never gets injured) I think he should be fine at 30...Matthews I think will digress faster than Tavares...
But one thing that just clicked for me when I read your response is that I would rather have a stack of 2cd and 3rds (which Chicago and Arizona have...too many to be able to keep those prospects in the system) as they make great trade chips at the deadline...
Hard to just throw one out but I would take a basketball type trade for Nylander...
Like...
Katchouk, a good prospect, 5 2cds and a 3rd
Nylander, 2 5ths and a 7th
...there would probably be more involved but you get the idea
Toronto would be just fine until the deadline when they could figure out how best to flip those picks in Jan/Feb AND it would solve any cap/issues Toronto has BUT there is such ego in hockey trades, some how you have to win the trade NOW...I dont get it
Chicago would get a guy who can score 50 with Bedard for quite a few years...
RANT OVER hahaha