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Forum: Expansion Draft18 juill. 2021 à 8 h 59
Forum: Armchair-GM5 févr. 2019 à 15 h 58
Sujet: Trade Zaitsev to Stay Under
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>herzausstein</b></div><div>This is why i think Kapenen ends up having offersheets thrown at him. Will he sign one? I don't know but if a team offersheets him for the maximum allowable with only a 2nd round pick as compensation and Toronto matches every team now knows Toronto is in a bad spot capwise and will have to make moves. So they all try to take advantage of Toronto.</div></div>

So what's the advantage if you're the team making the offer sheet exactly? Toronto isn't going to give him away for a 2nd round pick, so they match those offers and have to trade away another player to makefit everybody in. But that's what Toronto would do anyway. The other option of course, is to match and flip Kapanen for a lot more than a 2nd round pick. Leafs get a better return if Kap's Cap is lower than a 1st round pick threshold anyway. And then what will you really have done to harm the Maple Leafs?
Forum: Armchair-GM5 févr. 2019 à 15 h 52
Sujet: Trade Zaitsev to Stay Under
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>BeastModeUnknown</b></div><div>Most teams are going to ask you to pay for them to take Zaitsev.</div></div>

"Most" maybe. But the fact of the matter is that teams need right handed defencemen, and around 4 million is market value for one in free agency. From a Leafs perspective, its easy to see how his contract is in the way, but not all teams are under the same crunch as Toronto. Look at a team like Dallas for example - their right side goes from Klingberg to Roman Polak. Some comparable RHD in around Zaitsev's price range are guys like: Justin Braun, Brendan Smith, Davad Savard, Connor Murphy and Damon Severson.

Point being; it shouldn't prove impossible to trade away Zaitsev for nothing, like he does here in this example.