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Forum: Armchair-GMlun. à 21 h 28
Sujet: Penguins 2024-25 Season
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>squashmaple</b></div><div>Maybe Owen Pickering? He’s Mateychuk’s cousin. Could add to Laine for that one. But agreed, I don’t hate a deal based in Laine for Pettersson.</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Viqsi</b></div><div>We'd probably want something slightly nicer or a better fit than Puustinen back in that trade - maybe a mid pick - but otherwise that's a basis for Laine I'd strongly consider, given how much we need good defensive blueliners.</div></div>

I’m not a fan.

What’s that extension going to look like? It’s easy for it to be too long and expensive, and not worth the trade if he’s only going to sign short term. I’m fine with Petersson, but not really with him being the centerpiece of a trade. Just feels like another straddle signing to me.

Even then, PIT’s prospect system is too thin (and I doubt
Dubas agrees to Yager or so), and their 1sts too compromised (does it go to SJ this year? If so, do they gamble on another window extending move with 2026’s 1st) and their future pick-quality too murky to make it feel like something will work.

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>CooleyforCalder</b></div><div>Kings might do it</div></div>

Long live the PLD-validation 🙏
Forum: Armchair-GMdim. à 9 h 23
Sujet: SLC offseason
If you’re think you’re going to get Laine for pennies and justify it as “he’s trash now” or something, you can’t just turn around and make him a T6 player on a line with Lindholm and Guentzel.

If you value him as that type of player, you’re going to have to pay to get him like one, particularly since CBJ are in absolutely no rush to move on from Laine. We can wait.

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Viqsi</b></div><div>If you want to trade for Laine, you need to offer a package commesurate with that of a top-line scorer. Whether or not you believe he currently is one is irrelevant; unless that is offered, the Jackets are better off keeping him and hoping he rebounds, and there's no cap crunch here to motivate dumping him.</div></div>

A prime example of <a href="https://www.capfriendly.com/forums/thread/822935?post_id=4827791">the face-slaps previously mentioned.</a>
Forum: Armchair-GMsam. à 13 h 14
Sujet: Let a man dream
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Viqsi</b></div><div>Really, you could stop right there. The whole objection to dealing Laine right now is Don't Get Ripped Off By Selling Low. If we have to flip an asset for what we really want, we're getting ripped off and therefore effectively selling low by proxy.</div></div>

Agreed, but I don’t think this is selling low - A (likely) lottery-pick, a high-2nd and 3rd is a pretty good haul for Laine, IMO. Sending RR out for another good asset is just a cherry on top, particularly if it’s a move that is predicated.

It’s legitimate to wonder if his value has already peaked, and I think it’s fair to take what you can get if it’s a good deal. This definitely isn’t on the level of some of the face-slaps we’ve seen around here.
Forum: Armchair-GMven. à 15 h 34
Sujet: Not a CBJ Fan Just Curious
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>ms39</b></div><div>This is great insight from someone I can assume is a real and knowledgable Columbus fan! So, thank you for engaging sincerely.

As an Islanders fan, and real believer in Lou, I think you take a center over a winger by any means necessary. (We're playing our best hockey of the season right now with 6 centers! Our best line—Cizikas-Horvat-Barzal—is all centers!) I think being able to move Voronkov and Johnson (and maybe even Sillinger, too) to the wing would help their development. Plus, you can still get some shifts in at center. Then you've got Jenner as another fill-in center who plays wing, and Kuraly as center depth.
(Not a disagreement with your assessment here. I just think it helps a club to have as many centers as possible, and then figure out where to put ’em.)</div></div>

Of course, and much appreciate your dive into this. Silly and Voronkov have gotten some play at the wing, and yes - Boone is a Swiss-army knife who can play anywhere.

FWIW, KJ is likely a career winger. He’s got the playmaking chops to cut it at C, but his somewhat lanky-frame has made it difficult to keep at C. He’s had face off trouble, and the two-way responsibility down the middle has shown to be a lot for him.
Forum: Armchair-GMven. à 13 h 21
Sujet: Not a CBJ Fan Just Curious
I like where you are going with the aggressiveness - I’ve long been upset at the number of times Jarmo did his “weaponize the cap,” schpiel, only to, well, not.

My hold up is the Kampf trade and the retention - I get the balance of cap with trading for him and retaining on Elvis, but doing that and then trading for Campbell feels redundant, and that’s before getting to also retaining on Grubauer (I.e. we just turned one $5.4M cap hit into three for a total of $10.6M). I’ve <a href="https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/5003890">danced on this before</a>, but I think an Elvis for Campbell 1-for-1 could work. The alternative is Elvis just gets bought out, which is a cap hit CBJ can take right now.

Laine does need to be moved, and as much as I feel he would kick ass in VGK, I don’t see CBJ being on Bill’s OK list for his NTC.

I actually think CBJ’s C depth is at the best it’s been in a long time. Fantilli-Sillinger-Voronkov-Kuraly is looking like it could be real, and that’s before CBJ likely end up with a Lindstrom or Cattan (or Celebrini?) after this draft.

As for Dillon? CBJ already have Guds as their obligatory “big-bodied D” signing. Voronkov is also built like <a href="https://theathletic.com/4489581/2023/05/04/blue-jackets-dmitri-voronkov/?source=user_shared_article" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">semi-truck,</a> and will learn to throw the body more as he gets experience. Mateychuk almost made the team out of camp this year, and he’ll likely slot in next season.