You mentioned previously Arizona could wait til next year's trade deadline with 1.5 years left and still get a 1st and a prospect (and if he has fully returned to form, more) and I agree with that. Doug Armstrong certainly knows that too and presumably would have to make a best offer now that is better than that future price or else what's the point/why would the Blues be mentioned as real suitors?
The incentive for offering less than that is if you believe that Chychrun's desire to get out of Arizona has reached or is reaching a boiling point. If his actual conversation was 'get me the hell out of this garbage fire' and he's using a minor wrist issue as a justification for skipping camp, then the Coyotes might need to move him before the player goes public and demolishes the team's leverage. In case that is true, it isn't a bad idea to throw something at the Coyotes on the off chance they have to pull the trigger quickly. Again, I don't think we have the best offer on the table, but the Armstrongs have a past and probably talk 'off the record' enough to bounce around ideas and know what the other guy values.
If not the Leddy trade, the re-signing him certainly did.
Do you read the situation as one where Chychrun requested/demanded a trade behind the scenes? I'm wondering whether he may have done so last season, no trade materialized, he got hurt, stayed on Arizona. But his expectation was that he'd be traded before the end of the offseason, and that also hasn't happened.
Yeah chychrun is always seemingly on the Injured list every year. Last year he had an ankle injury in March that ended his season and now we find out he recently had wrist surgery and is rehabbing from that. I'd rather not spend assets on him at all right now unless it's for a massive discount
All 8 guys with retired numbers are going in automatically (along with Sid Salomon Jr and Dan Kelly). At least one other person will be joining that class, but they didn't specify how many more people would be going in.
It'll be interesting to see who gets the last top 9 spot between Brown and Neighbours. Both have probably done enough to earn it. Sinec Neighbors can go down, it would make sense to start that way and come up if someone struggles early or when injuries hit.
