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Forum: Armchair-GM5 juin 2023 à 16 h 35
Sujet: thats no moon
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>QualityTrades1</b></div><div>I don't mind the trade really but can you explain to me how you plan on combatting offer sheets when it comes time to pay Hughes, Mercer, Nemec?</div></div>
Extending all of them should be fine, provided you put swap Walsh in for Nemec at 3RHD as to preserve one more year of ELC slide, big difference to pay Nemec 900k in 26/27 than 8-9m.
Ahead of either the 24/25 or 25/26 seasons you can also trade Marino out for a pretty good haul and run a right side of Hamilton - Nemec - Walsh (or Casey depending on how quickly he develops).
Palat's contract would hurt a little but his full NMC turns into 10 team trade list in 2025, so another 6m that wouldn't be too difficult to move out at that time.
If it came to it you could trade Hamilton ahead of his last year if some of those young guys really popped off and become top 20 players in the league.

Point is, the Devils could manage adding DeBrincat to the current core and remain cap compliant without having to pay to dump cap.
As for offersheets I wouldn't worry about them as they occur so infrequently.
Forum: Armchair-GM14 mars 2023 à 1 h 55
Forum: Armchair-GM25 févr. 2023 à 9 h 46
Forum: Armchair-GM18 déc. 2022 à 23 h 22
Sujet: GM Hughes draft day deal
Here's the first reason why your statement that Byfield and Farrell have "similar value" is mistaken: Byfield, 6'4", 215 pounds, big hitter, already playing in professional hockey despite the fact that he's younger than Farrell; Farrell, 5'8", 175 pounds, unsigned prospect playing in the NCAA.

Here's the second reason why your statement that Byfield and Farrell have "similar value" is mistaken: Byfield -- automatically becomes your best center prospect, without much quality ahead of him; Farrell, far behind well-developed prospects like Grundstrom, Anderson-Dolan, Turcotte and Fa-gem-o if we're talking about LW, Madden, Helenius and Pinelli if we're talking about center (although I will admit that if Farrell makes it to the NHL, he has a higher ceiling than any of them and might turn out to be the next Clayton Keller).

Here's the third reason why your statement that Byfield and Farrell have "similar value" is mistaken: we have sufficient depth at all of the forward positions that Farrell wouldn't interest us; our major weakness for which we would consider trading Byfield is at LhD. IF (and it's a big IF) we agreed with your analysis that Byfield will take much longer to develop, we'd only be interested in trading for Kaiden Guhle or Arber Xhekaj.

Finally, we tend to be patient with our prospects. (See Vilardi and Turcotte.) I highly doubt that we'd give up on Byfield this quickly.