That retention is ridiculous, Chicago isn't doing that.

1st to take faksa he's a DUMP

Except bownes loves him and with one of the best records in the league, they’ll be buyers. Never hurts to sure a good defensive center.

The first trade is interesting and the others are bonkers.

Blumel and Lundqvist are two quality young players. I think Calgary would be intrigued.

Remove all retention and the hawks might not block your number

We'll give you TDA but I don't think we'll deal Pesce

So you want the Hawks to retain over $24m and eat Suter’s $3.65m cap hit for one more season?!

Add Stankoven and two more 1st round draft picks to your proposal.

They have that already and just because bowness is the coach doesn't change him not being a negative asset

Canes aren’t sellers

Canes aren’t sellers, and even if they were, they have no need for Lindell, with Slavin, Skjei, and Orlov on the left side, and the rest of that package doesn’t get Pesce.

All teams that aren't Dallas say no.

Remove the retention on Jones and you are a lot closer, but it would still take more quality > quantity. I do like Dallas as a landing spot for Jones if he is moved, since it is his hometown. I'm pretty sure DAL was one of the other teams in on him before CHI won the bid, too.

Dallas could really use another top 4 RHD too.

Definitely. A lot of people are just hanging onto analytics and opinion pieces from two years ago that don't tell the whole story in order to support their argument that Jones should cost them next to nothing. But their desire to trade for him is pretty telling that they just want something for nothing.

Can't blame them, really. Everyone wants that. We always want the best deal possible. In the case of Jones, though, CHI won't be fooled by all the nonsense out there... At least I hope they won't be fools, or, if they do sell low on him, I hope that years down the road, hindsight tells us it was for a good enough reason.