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Rumor: 2020-21 Trade Rumours and FA Part VIII: Intra-Playoff Edition?

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Not to be disrespectful, but after the playoffs the Avs just had, I am shocked anyone on this board still brings up Taylor Hall as if he is somehow a solution to any of the problems we just witnessed. Taylor Hall just had yet another disappointing playoffs. Against the Isles he had a goal and an assist in 6 games, and went pointless in the final three. He was invisible most of the time in the second round for Boston when the going got tough. He was soft on the puck and losing puck battles left and right. He is very genuinely the absolute last type of player the Avs need.
 
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Need depth C and some FO capability, a 4th line that is nuisance to play against and some depth D.
Internals
  • Resign Saad, Landy, Timmons and bridge Makar or else the signings I propose cant happen
  • Let Jost walk. Ceiling is 3C but not good at FO. Not enough of a pest to play 4C
  • Graves to SEA
  • EJ is LTIR, maybe available for playoffs next year. Gotta play the TB card somewhere
  • Stuck on what to do with Grubi...

Trades and FA
  • Trade Kadri+JTC+low draft pick for Hertl to become the new 2C
  • Sign Denault to be 3C
  • See if you can pry away Taffoli from MTL for Donskoi+Kaut ++
  • Sign Corey Perry to a 1yr cheap deal to be on the 4th line. Combine with LOC and Newhook and that feels like a handful for most teams
  • Sign Alex Martinez to be in the top 4, moving G to 5th D with Timmons

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Burki-Hertl-Saad
Nuke-Denault-Taffoli
Perry-Newhook-LOC

Toews-Makar
Martinez-Byram
Girard-Timmons
 
Avaholic29 said:
I’d take pavelski in a heart beat for sure.
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Who knows what they'll do but Dallas might decide to rebuild. Pavelski is 36 and one year left on his deal, they might want futures and it opens up a protection slot the stars need. He's making over his cap hit in real dollars this year, so I don't think Dallas will retain. He's also been durable.

An additional scenario is if the Stars expose him to Seattle as expected, you trade them enough to forget about Khudobin and flip Pavelski.
 
Hasbro said:
Who knows what they'll do but Dallas might decide to rebuild. Pavelski is 36 and one year left on his deal, they might want futures and it opens up a protection slot the stars need. He's making over his cap hit in real dollars this year, so I don't think Dallas will retain. He's also been durable. Being under contract for a year doesn't interfere with MacKinnon's raise and doesn't clog up the spot for Newhook long term.

An additional scenario is if the Stars expose him to Seattle as expected, you trade them enough to forget about Khudobin and flip Pavelski.
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Assuming Dong taken by Seattle

Sign Landy 5 years 7 M$

Trade Kadri + Timmons for Reinhart

Sign Reinhart 4 years 6 M$

Sign Saad 3 years 4,5 M$

Sign Armia 3 years 3 M$

Trade Bura + Graves for Rakell

Sign Makar 8 years 9M$

Sign Larsson or Montour 3 years 4 M$

Sign Ullmark and Driedger 3 years 3 M$


Landy - MacK - Rantanen
Saad - Reinhart - Rakell
Nuke - Newhook - Armia
Ranta - Jost - LOC

Toews - Makar
Byram - Girard
Larsson/Montour - Barron

Ullmark
Driedger

Do I have enough $$$ ?
 
If it didn’t take a big-ticket prospect or player and they made the cap work, I’d take Joey Pavs in a heartbeat. Elite defensively and in the faceoff dot. Also quite possibly the best net-front guy on the power play you could ever hope for. There would be NO stopping the Avs on the man advantage with him either in the Landeskog or bumper slot.

And I think he’d fit the team identity just fine.

That said, Pavelski was one of the only reasons Dallas had any success at all this season. They’re not dealing him now that they’ll have a full season of Seguin again and Robertson has provided them with a much-needed weapon up front.
 
This team keeps getting beat because their weaknesses get exposed and exploited. It could be worth a shot to see if anybody can stop this team if you simply removed those weaknesses, you don't even need to do anything big just don't hand the other team a free lunch with some of the weak players you put out there.

Burakovsky - Mackinnon - Nichushkin
Landeskog - Rantanen - Saad
Newhook - Jost - Kaut
LOC - Compher - Ranta

Byram - Makar
Toews - Timmins
Macdonald - EJ/Graves/Renouf

Burakovsky and Nichushkin have good chemistry together, and I think Mackinnon would actually really benefit from somebody like Nichushkin winning puck battles and giving him extra chances to attack.

Rantanen unlocks his true potential at Center (Making more use of his underrated two-way ability) and gives this team some much needed size down the middle.

Jost is fine as 3C, with the way he played down the stretch I can see him hitting 40 points next season.

I don't mind Graves on the bottom pair, it's when he tries to play a bigger role that he gets himself into trouble that said Renouf would probably make for a more steady ride and fit the stay at home defensemen role that we need there.

I think that lineup beats this Vegas team easily, without anything easy for Vegas to exploit they wouldn't have come back against us in those games.
 
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Pokecheque said:
If it didn’t take a big-ticket prospect or player and they made the cap work, I’d take Joey Pavs in a heartbeat. Elite defensively and in the faceoff dot. Also quite possibly the best net-front guy on the power play you could ever hope for. There would be NO stopping the Avs on the man advantage with him either in the Landeskog or bumper slot.

And I think he’d fit the team identity just fine.
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Hell, I thought we were desperate to change that.:rolleyes:
 
dahrougem2 said:
I think Seattle 100% takes a player from our active roster. No doubt they're going to pick random scrubs from teams they don't feel like picking a player from, but I don't think that'll be us.

The question is, do the Avs protect Logan O'Connor or expose him and risk losing what surely looks like a phenomenal 4th liner that fits this team's identity to a tee? Because if he's exposed, I think Seattle looks at him and only him.
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LOC had to play 29 games to be eligible to be exposed. So I think he is safely an Av player through the draft. However, that might have been merely to fulfill the mandate of exposing legit NHL players. I would protect LOC over many of the players on the various lists in this forum
 
cinchronicity said:
LOC had to play 29 games to be eligible to be exposed. So I think he is safely an Av player through the draft. However, that might have been merely to fulfill the mandate of exposing legit NHL players. I would protect LOC over many of the players on the various lists in this forum
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I’d easily protect him even if he only ends up a very good 4th liner. He adds a dimension the Avs just don’t have enough of, while not detracting from anything that defines them as a team. The ONLY forwards I would protect ahead of him for sure are the top line guys, Kadri, and Nichushkin.
 
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