Rico will cost you a 2nd and a b prospect at 50% retained

Sorry, it's gonna cost a 1st + 3rd not a 2nd

Shoot, then we should be trying to get a 1st for Rico then

Lindholm - obviously the one to pursue here. Probably too much to acquire though due to competition for his services.

Monahan - not an improvement over anything the Jets already have. Bad fit for the Jets. Not good enough offensively for the top 6, not good enough defensively for the bottom 6. The Jets are playing well and shouldn't go out of their way to mess with their lineup to add an inconsequential player.

Granlund - not an improvement over anything the Jets already have.

Schmaltz - Won't be available imo.

Henrique - why bother.

Hopefully of Chevy is thinking of adding, he's looking at guys none of us think are available.

No need to apologize. Just going off of what Pagnotta said.

That was your mistake right there

I’m sure if Chevy adds someone, it won’t be anyone from this list lol. He surprises us every year.

Just spitballing.

Henrique likely gets the same or a 1st + 2nd, fans on here tend to value picks higher than players but it's players that contending teams want not picks. These are mid-late 1sts we are talking about not high 1sts and this is a weaker draft as well, outside there top 10 most in the 1st round are highly unlikely to even make the NHL out of this class

agreed. monahan will be one fo the most coveted rentals available this year.

You should be able to get a first if you double retain

Granlund would be my pick, not sure SJ is retaining though cause they have two retention spots used up on Burns and Karlsson already, they probably prefer to use their last retention spot on a UFA so they have another one at next years TDL.

schmaltz is not a C, BTW

Sharks would trade Granlund for a 2nd. No retention.
He's on a 60+ point pace right now. Is defensively responsible. Contributes on pp and pk. Great passer.

Monahan will gonna cost the low 1st round pick.

And I don't see him as a good fit for the Jets

I bet Granlund and Ehlers would be pretty awesome on the Jets 2nd line.

I could definitely see that trade happening.

Trust pagnotta over a random guy on capfriendly bruh. This guy will go to the end of the earth saying Monahan is worth a 1st while his advanced stats show he's decent on the pp but really just not that valuable compared to the value of a 1st

I disagree about Monahan and Grandlund not being an upgrade. Either one could supplant Nameskiov as the 2C (at times), but either could be really good 4th liners with PP time.
The more I think about it, the more i want Chevvy to go big game hunting on a 2C. Not sure who, Lindholm perhaps, but preferably someone with term if they have to give up such so much

Yeah, Lindholm is an obvious choice, but with the competition for him, I think he'll get priced out of Chevy's market.

Monahan is just a bad fit. I don't know what you're seeing, but Monahan isn't an upgrade over anyone in Winnipeg's top 9. Vlad is better 5 on 5 and better at everything else, save FO's and not a liability defensively. Due to being a defensive liability, Monahan isn't a good 4th liner. He's just not worth wasting assets on as he doesn't move the needle even slightly.

Granlund, while better than Monahan, isn't an upgrade over anything in Winnipeg's top 9 and once again Vlad is a better and cheaper. You also have to take into account Granlund has another year on his awful contract, so the Jets would have that anchor hanging around next year. Which would negate any benefits of moving or buying out Schmidt. I don't think the Jets want to add a bad contract.

For me, neither of these two make any difference, so why bother to throw away good assets and risk messing with the chemistry of a team that is playing well to add players, just to add players.

I think a trap that a lot of people (myself included) tend to fall into when thinking about a 2c at the deadline is the idea that it has to be an upgrade over Vlad. The guy we bring in really doesn't need to be an upgrade or even take Vlad's spot, he just needs to be able to produce offensively in the top6 if it's needed.

What the Jets need is a guy to fall back on if Vlad or Scheif get injured. It can't be Lowry (see Saturday's game), can't be Perfetti (wrist), can't be Vilardi (for some reason).

If Chevy goes out and acquires Lindholm, then Vladdy the Baddie is obviously the fallback guy. For some other centre acquisitions, their spot on the depth chart becomes a little murky, but that's okay. The question we should be asking ourselves is not whether x player is an upgrade over Namestnikov, but whether they can play in a top6 role and produce offensively with the top6 (or in other words, whether they can be Namestnikov's Namestnikov).

Of the possibilities mentioned here, the ones I would like to see are: Lindholm, Granlund, Henrique.

Knowing Chevy, we'll end up with some guy from the Eastern Conference none of us have ever heard of who plays 4th line grinder minutes on his current team. He'll cost the Jets a 6th round pick, a bag of pucks, and 2 packs of juicy fruit, and he'll win the Conn Smythe.