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Forum: Armchair-GM19 févr. 2019 à 13 h 51
Sujet: New Trade Deadline Ideas
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>exo2769</b></div><div>I would do that from the CHI perspective. I think both EDM and CHI might prefer Forsling though. Forsling has played a bunch of NHL games and last year for a decent stretch he was a SOLID 2nd pair LD. He hasn't regained that form this year and it's hard to get NHL ice time on this team right now as a Dman. A change of scenery could help both. I posted a team a little bit ago posing this same thing. There are clearly a few guys that are on the outside looking in. Forsling/Perlini/Forsberg/ and even Chad Krys IMO. He's the tth ranked D prospect out of 5 highly ranked d prospects.

<a href="https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/1039419">https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/1039419</a></div></div>

What do you think a Gus to MTL trade would look like?
Forum: Armchair-GM19 févr. 2019 à 12 h 24
Sujet: New Trade Deadline Ideas
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>exo2769</b></div><div>That's not a good Gus trade. I understand the whole...Boqvist is playing well and going to be up soon so we can trade Gus, but CHI can just get soo much more for him than (2) 3rds and Tobias Rider. I'd rather just keep Gus right now and use him! If Muzzin can get a late 1st rounder and a solid 2nd round prospect...Gus can get AT LEAST the 1st alone. It's arguable if he can do better or worse than the additional promising prospect...Depends on the other team's needs I guess. Gus is better offensively than Muzzin AND definitely costs less, but Gus isn't as good defensively. I still think MTL should trade for him because him next to Shea Weber would be awesome.

Perlini and JP have similar stories and similar values. I do agree / admit the edge in value goes to JP, but it's an edge in value...not a 1st or 2nd rounder in value. For the record I would do a Perlini JP swap and provide a little bit more to EDM because I think they both could use a change of scenery and CHI gets the slight advantage in upside.</div></div>

Do you thing Dahlstrom and Perlini for JP would be fair?
Forum: Armchair-GM12 févr. 2019 à 13 h 13
Sujet: Deadline SellersHelping Prepare for the Future
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>exo2769</b></div><div>I know why you did the CGY trade, but I honestly don't want to trade Keith at all. This site has gone nuts over some random guy's Duncan Keith comment. Keith's playing amazing hockey right now and we're about to have somewhere between 1-5 rookie Dmen spend time with the Hawks over the next few years. He may not be a Norris finalist anymore, but he's 110% a top pair Dman and $5.5M for that is a bargain. I would do the CAR trade though. The Hawks don't need the extra cap space, but it would be nice to have more. With that said if I were a CAR fan, I'd say no. Fleury is still young and can help, CAR isn't contending for a cup this year. It just wouldn't be worth it IMO.</div></div>

I am, and have been, so torn on whether or not to trade Keith. I completely agree that he is a super affordable top pair dman and would be a great mentor to the young guys coming up, exhibit A Jokiharju, but I am concerned that if the hawks don't move out a dman this Deadline/summer they won't be able to give all of their young layers the right amount of ice time. I am assuming that the Hawks are keeping Murphy and Gus, who has really started to persuade me that he should stay, and Seabrook is here for good and if they don't trade Keith they'll already have four dmen locked up for next season. Jokiharju in my book is a lock next year, Boqvist is hopefully ready, and I'd rather have room on the team for him rather than have him play meaningless minutes for Rockford. Mitchell is a question mark along with Chad Krys. That is 8 dmen without even including guys like Forsling, Koekkoek, Dahlstrom, and Hillman. Finally, Bowman might look to make a few moves in free agency to sure up the top 4. So if Keith is gone we get 5.5 to spend on another forward and another young guy will be able to play more meaningful minutes in the NHL. As far as Anisimov, CAR needs to shed some dmen and need more scoring, I figured that would be a good deal for both teams now and in the future.
Forum: Armchair-GM17 janv. 2019 à 0 h 32
Sujet: Stocking Up on Picks and Prospects at the Deadline
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>LoganOllivier</b></div><div>You aren't going to convince me that Murphy is anything more than a middle pair guy at best. Perhaps Tanev is in a big decline, I'll have to watch more of him to be certain. If that is the case, I'd still rather get Pysyk from Florida or Petrovic from Edmonton. Or just not trade for a defenceman and roll the dice with what they have. For Toronto, no matter what they do, how the forwards decide to play will be the reason they win or lose in the playoffs. If they decide to give it their all every night, they will be fine, if they decide to take shift or entire games off, then they'll be in trouble no matter who is playing defence.</div></div>

I obviously tend to disagree, but thanks for a great conversation ?
Forum: Armchair-GM16 janv. 2019 à 14 h 28
Sujet: Stocking Up on Picks and Prospects at the Deadline
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>LoganOllivier</b></div><div>No I think the Leafs would give up a 1st and Rosen for Tanev with the Canucks retaining half his salary. 1st of all Tanev is actually a top 4 defender (I utterly hate that term because its useless and misleading) and if his salary is 2.25 million for the next 2 seasons, he can easily be retained next season without needing to make other moves to cut salary. 2nd he only has 1 more year of contract meaning he can just be let go after next season if Liljegren and Sandin (or other young defenceman) progress as they appear to be progressing.

Onto the top 4 defender phrase. I know what people mean when they say it but literally everyone is a top 4 defender according to fans of their players. Murphy isn't a top pair guy, never has been and never will be, so he isn't a top 4 guy. He's a middle pair. I am so tired of hearing the term top 4 for guys that at best are 2nd pair players. If you aren't capable of playing top pair minutes, you are not a top 4 player, you are a middle pair player. Murphy is better described as a middle pair defender or a bottom 4 since he would be a bottom pair guy on a lot of teams.</div></div>

This season Murphy is playing better than Tanev according to both Points Per Game and advanced stats. Murphy is also younger, and has room to grow. Also if you suggest giving up a first and a good defensive prospect who will probably replace Gardiner next season, for Tanev, the older and worse defensman, when you could just give up Brown for Murphy and save a mil even if Tanev is half retained. Plus TOR is going to have to give up Brown anyway to clear cap next season.
Forum: Armchair-GM16 janv. 2019 à 14 h 7
Sujet: Stocking Up on Picks and Prospects at the Deadline
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>thewookie1</b></div><div>Buffalo says no, while Gustafsson is intriguing and Saad is ok, we are giving up way too much to help you clear cap space to go after Panarin.

I’d be interested in Saad to some degree and Anisimov as a pseudo cap dump. BUFs 1st is off the table however as is St.Ls more than likely. I’d be willing to part with Nylander possibly but we need Asplund’s center depth.</div></div>

With both Saad and Gus the Sabers should be able to make the playoffs, so their pick won't be a lottery pick. This trade also helps the Sabers in the future. Nylander is struggling to develop and could use a change of scenery. The St. Louis and San Jose 1st will quickly be able to replace Asplund.
Forum: Armchair-GM16 janv. 2019 à 13 h 12
Sujet: Stocking Up on Picks and Prospects at the Deadline
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>LoganOllivier</b></div><div>You yourself have stated the cap situation TO will be in next season. Its not terrible but its tight and spending 3.8 million on Murphy (who isn't that good on a team that is really not good) is really not a smart idea.

Also what is a top 4 defenceman? According to people on here, everyone who is right handed is a top 4 defenceman but never play in the top pair. They are always 2nd pair defenceman on their team and get labelled as top 4. Murphy is not a top pair guy, in fact I'd wager he's best suited to play bottom pair minutes on championship calibre teams. Yes Brown is a depth winger, on an extremely deep team upfront. He's probably a bottom 6 guy on most teams but he'd be an improvement on a lot of teams top 6 winger depth.

Please keep in mind that I am not trying to overvalue Brown and undervalue Murphy, they are pretty well on par. The difference being that Murphy has a contract that isn't attractive to TO while Brown could be traded in the off season for cap relief and bring back a decent draft pick. The trade makes no sense for TO at present. Better defenceman are available.</div></div>

A Top 4 defenceman is someone who plays on the top two pairs and Murphy is that. Plus in this trade TOR is only taking on 1.7 mil for this season and next, whereas if TOR gets Tanev, like you said down below, they would be taking on close to 4 million dollars. Plus Murphy is a way cheaper price for a slightly worse player if you think TOR should be giving up a 1st Kapanen and Bracco for Tanev.