Even under the assumption that Novak maintains his success from last year, no chance EDM is giving up that much for a forward.

Canes selling this year?

Id imagine this would be for cap for another, bigger move.

Is Nashville supposed to be buying or selling at the deadline?? It's tough to tell from the trades. If we're buying then we're not moving Novak, if we're selling then we're not paying for Turbo. We need to move a RD either way but that's a sad expectation for a return. If Novak continues from last year, we won't need to be adding a pick for a return like that. Honestly this is kind of all over the place imo.

Assuming Kochetkov makes 10-15 starts in the AHL and a forward is waived when Kochetkov isn’t, we will have the equivalent of a 6 million cap available at the deadline.

so you then have like 11 mil to spend? That just opens it up to get more players for cheaper

Also not saying this should be done just me assuming why it would be