Quoting: rangersandislesfan
Quoting: krakowitz
You inquired on my page about a deal involving Ekholm or Josi going your way and something big plus Claesson coming to me. Any update on what that big piece would be?
Maybe a bit later in the season we could do something like this:
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White
Claesson
3rd rounder 2020
minor prospect
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Ekholm
OR
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Roman Josi
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Cody Ceci
Derrick Brassard
Alex Formenton
Or something around Chabot for either of them.
Couple things here --
1. If we are going to do something at all, it would be sooner rather than later. I don't want these pieces to be tied up in this potential deal, which restricts my ability to make moves to benefit my team.
2. Chabot coming my way would be a must. Ekholm is probably the best fit in a deal here, you just don't have the defenseman I'd be looking for in a Josi deal (except Karlsson, but I know you won't move him).
However, I appreciate that you're getting close to feeling out a deal at this point in time, and I have a deal that is basically the best I can do for you, mostly because I don't feel like wasting either of our times here. I don't do this often, RAIF, so feel lucky lmao.
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Mattias Ekholm
Charles Hudon
Trevor Murphy
Cody McLeod
Thomas Novak
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Thomas Chabot
Colin White/Logan Brown
Freddie Claesson
Ryan Dzingel
Alex Formenton
2018 3rd
2019 4th
Honestly, I'm not entirely sure I'd do this deal. But I'll give you until tomorrow night to let me know what you think on this one. But if you can't give me an answer by then, the offer is off the table. Think about the shutdown defense + good first pass of Ekholm on a pairing with Karlsson. You also get a forward with some good promise in Hudon, a great depth option with McLeod, an excellent offensive defense prospect in Murphy and a potential third line center in Novak. It's a lot of pieces moving, but it fills the biggest weakness on your team while giving you probably the best defense pairing in this game.