Quoting: NucksnOilers
Brown probably comes up on league min, would be a massive snake move to Mcdavid to just leave after sucking and being paid 4 million.
That deal is more than enough for Parayko but blues fans will complain you didn't offer 4 1sts for him since they think he's prime Bobby Orr for some reason.
I think the Ducks would probably move a 5th for Ceci (Just based on Ducks fan feedback when I did that).
WF probably leaves and gets 3 million + elsewhere
It makes 0 sense for the Blues to trade Parayko.
What are you offering back here?
1. a mid to late 1st
2. a project LD with a high draft pedigree - but troubling results early in his career.
3. a forward prospect who probably projects to be a middle 6er if everything shakes right.
We could stand to add a late 1st but don't need to.
Broberg is far from a valuable asset right now. He is a project. He has been mishandled by the Oilers front office and has had troubling results due to it.
Bourgault would probably be our 5th best forward prospect at the moment. Not an area of need especially when we have THomas and Kyrou locked up for 8 years.
What we would need to do if we traded Parayko is to fully redesign our defense that is littered with full NTCs that are being paid UFA money or close to it, and young guys who project as little more than bottom pairing players. That is an impossible task. So what it would do then afterwards is push us into a long-term rebuild versus what we're shooting for of a retool (Per our GM).
We aren't replacing Parayko for 6.5m a year any time soon, nor are we entering a full on rebuild any time soon. Thus why Parayko isn't available unless you offer a younger RD that can handle heavy minutes in a package.