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Forum: Armchair-GMHier à 11 h 7
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That's not close for Laine. We don't need to move him, so if we don't get a top-line winger return, we'd just hold onto him and hope he returns to the top-line winger form he's shown when healthy.

If we're doing conditions on picks and retention, it would need to look more like:
Laine (~$2.2M retained) for Smith, 2024 PIT 2nd*, 2026 PIT 2nd*, 2025 PIT 3rd
*becomes the 2025 NJD 1st if Laine plays 50+ games next season
**becomes a top-5 protected 2026 PIT 1st (slides to 2027 unprotected if top-5) if Laine plays 100+ games combined in 2024-25 and 2025-26.

Smith would be purely for cap/contract reasons, we'd likely immediately flip him with retention. for a 2nd or so.

You can't devalue Laine because he can't stay healthy, then give picks with conditions on him being healthy, and expect to get the high-risk/buy-low return. It's either a lowball return with conditions, or a full return and you take the risk. Otherwise we're keeping him.