zegras vs necas? It rhymes and would help both.

Ducks don’t have a roster piece that is an upgrade worth moving Necas for

Seems like a summer move. Carolina is trying to win.

Rumours read it as an affordability crisis for Carolina, if that's the case, you're not getting an upgrade on Necas.

We can afford Necas without an issue. We have 30 million in space. We can bridge Jarvis if needed.

He's already been bridged once and has arbitration rights, if he matches last seasons points output he's going to get a pretty penny one way or another.

"Can afford" and "want to pay" are two very different things.

For a team trying to win, we can easily do an arbitration deal for 1 year to kick the can down the road instead of selling for futures. Would make more sense to do that anyways

Seems like reports of Carolina shopping wouldn’t be a thing if this was true no?

From larry brooks? He isn’t a source, especially not a canes source

The report I read said "Canes could be willing to listen to offers on Necas." which is a whole lot of nothing, it's like when reporters said Verbeek was listening to offers for Zegras.

Like, of course the GM is going to listen to offers for their good young players - That's their job. It doesn't mean that those players are actually on the block or even available.

If true, it absolutely means he's available. You don't hear of Edmonton "willing to listen to offers" on Connor McDavid, or of Chicago "willing to listen to offers" on Connor Bedard.

Fair enough. Thanks for the insight. Much appreciated!