Quoting: Moss_Bucket
Yeah. I thought cap situation plus contract length would equal a 3rd here. I've heard around the grape vine that Joseph is having a good preseason. Hope it works out for him, because everyone loves a good bounceback story.
Considering the market right now, it's understandable that teams with cap space (ho don't need Joseph as they're rebuilding anyway) will want to benefit of the situation but it's also why it doesn't make sense to pay to move him. Joseph is 26 and has an history of being good. The thing is people quickly look at his hockeydb.com profile and determine that he's a cap dump BUT...
He has played on the top contender during his first 4 NHL seasons, averaging 11:54 of ice-time, including PK. Being on a top contender, it's normal that there was several players in front of him on the W depth chart. He still averaged 26 pts per 82 games (only 2 out of 70 pts on the PP and 36 of these ES/PK pts were goals) while being a top NHL PK forward and being good defensively at ES.
He didn't have a great season last year but overall in Ottawa, he has averaged 37 pts per 82 games while still being good defensively. Teams are a lot more "informed" than the average hockey fan, they are going to rely on Joseph whole body work and not just in a 56 games stretch last season. They of course are not going to listen to the noise from random internet posters like GMDB's pushing a narrative.
It's possible that Dorion still trades Joseph but I can't see a situation where he is stupid enough to move a 1st or a prospect like Greig (I even see that as a demand lol) or two 2nds, etc. If no team is rady to lower their demands then Dorion will have to move either Kubalik or Brannstrom, or maybe something else will happen that nobody saw coming (like it's most of the time the case)