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Rumor: 2024-2025 Trade Rumors and Free Agency Talk | Part Deux

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BobRossColton said:
Okay new plan
Get Colton to waive for NJ to acquire Mercer
Give Mercer a trial run right before TDL
Send Mercer and minor + for a retained Jones at the actual deadline


Or use Mercer+ to get Crouse+Marino
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lionsDen said:
I just wish there was an ounce of thought in his proposals.

Age, pedigree are huge hurdles in this

Not to mentions it’s a down year for Mercer on a good contract
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Nah I’m just messing around with him.

I got no problem with his proposals. You know why? Cause he doesn’t argue the value, doesn’t get mad if you tell him it’s no good. He’s not entrenched in his position. He Just happily throws out random ideas.
 
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EdAVSfan said:
Nah I’m just messing around with him.

I got no problem with his proposals. You know why? Cause he doesn’t argue the value, doesn’t get mad if you tell him it’s no good. He’s not entrenched in his position. He Just happily throws out random ideas.
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Yep and really that’s all any of us can do , it’s for fun in the end .
 
Zegras is a C. He had his two best seasons in the NHL playing mostly at the pivot. Again, injuries are a huge concern but I think he’d be perfectly fine in Bednar’s system. He has yet to play for an NHL head coach who has anything remotely resembling an offensive scheme.
 
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Pokecheque said:
Zegras is a C. He had his two best seasons in the NHL playing mostly at the pivot. Again, injuries are a huge concern but I think he’d be perfectly fine in Bednar’s system. He has yet to play for an NHL head coach who has anything remotely resembling an offensive scheme.
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He's not. Just because at one point a player played C it doesn't mean that's his position forever. The team went ahead and drafted Carlson and McTavish as soon as they could to make sure they'd have decent Centers going forward.

Zegras just sucks at this point, there's nothing there. It's not the team 'is holding him down' - he's frikkin' Galchenyuk at this point. No team is trading for him - at all - let alone trying to bring him in to be a center in a Top-6.

People kept suggesting it was all the coach with Galchenyuk too and as soon as he got out of there, he was going to take off. Not going to happen.
 
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CobraAcesS said:
If this is possible to make happen they need to do it 100% IMO.
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In:
Jones $2m retained ($7.5m)
Dumoulin 50% retained ($1.575m)
Zetterlund 50% retained ($725k)

Out:
Wood
Kylington
Malinski
Picks/prospects

Leaves the roster below. If you pay another 4/5th round pick to get double retention on Dumoulin that would also open up more forward options with higher caphits than Zetterlund (he might be too expensive as SJ probably don't want to trade him, I just used him as an example).

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a mangy Meowth said:
Has it gotten THAT bad? :laugh: :eek:
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Right now he's playing wing on a line with Vatrano (career winger) and known defensive liability Ryan Strome as the center.

Zegras is talented but way too floaty for any NHL coach to put him at center. He better hope some team trades for him and pairs him with a talented center AND has a coach that will put up with his defensive shortcomings.

Can't wait to see it...not sure that situation exists.
 
Bender said:
Right now he's playing wing on a line with Vatrano (career winger) and known defensive liability Ryan Strome as the center.

Zegras is talented but way too floaty for any NHL coach to put him at center. He better hope some team trades for him and pairs him with a talented center AND has a coach that will put up with his defensive shortcomings.

Can't wait to see it...not sure that situation exists.
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Zegras to Philly E5

Michkov - Zegras - Kuzmenko

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Bender said:
Right now he's playing wing on a line with Vatrano (career winger) and known defensive liability Ryan Strome as the center.

Zegras is talented but way too floaty for any NHL coach to put him at center. He better hope some team trades for him and pairs him with a talented center AND has a coach that will put up with his defensive shortcomings.

Can't wait to see it...not sure that situation exists.
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How many police officers has Zegras threatened so far?

Feel like you might be dropping the Galchenyuk comparison without realizing the depths to which Galchenyuk has fallen these days lol. Might want to pick a different guy.
 
I mentioned Zetterlund in a post above, as a middle 6 forward addition that would make sense from a cap perspective. I wanted him from NJ since the days of Donskoi/Compher/Kaut, but now that he's broken out he would probably not come cheap. Along with having a really low caphit ($1.45m) he's also an RFA, which CMac obviously values highly.

SJ are really thin at RHD so I wonder if they'd have interest in Malinski as part of a return built around Malinski + NYR 2nd for Zetterlund (plus another pick for 50% retention maybe).

Avs do have plenty of capspace this off-season so they can probably afford Zetterlund's next contract.

Drouin - MacKinnon - Nichushkin
Lehkonen - Mittelstadt - Necas
Colton - Drury - Zetterlund
Wood - Kelly - O'Connor
Parssinen, Kiviranta

Maybe that's a bit overkill without sending another forward out. But perhaps Z could be a replacement for a Colton or Wood if they get moved to balance money in a bigger trade (eg. Jones).
 
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