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GDT: 2025 NHL Trade Deadline - March 7

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Soda won't be traded. He's earned a 1B spot with Knight for next season. You don't trade Soda to protect Mrazek's roster spot.

They have options with Mrazek. They can keep him on the roster and not play him or waive him and send him to Rockford. No one is going to trade for him or pick him up off waivers the way he is playing. I would buy him out in the off season and go with a Soda/Knight combo. Brossoit can also be bought out or sent to the AHL. I would keep him as a 3rd string however. (pending health)
 
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I don't see why Tampa would want Soda when they have arguably the best goalie in the league healthy and at the top of his game.

Detroit, Edmonton, and Columbus are the only playoff teams I can see maybe being interested in him.

I also doubt any return is even worth trading him for.
 
Putt Pirate said:
I don’t get this pining for him. He has sucked in Carolina. Imagine how bad he would be here.
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Wally1112pac said:
Soda won't be traded. He's earned a 1B spot with Knight for next season. You don't trade Soda to protect Mrazek's roster spot.

They have options with Mrazek. They can keep him on the roster and not play him or waive him and send him to Rockford. No one is going to trade for him or pick him up off waivers the way he is playing. I would buy him out in the off season and go with a Soda/Knight combo. Brossoit can also be bought out or sent to the AHL. I would keep him as a 3rd string however. (pending health)
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I would consider selling high on Soda for the right offer. He is turning 26 before next season and was terrible last season (and each of his other 2 season cameos in the NHL). Knight is going to be 24 and has a much better pedigree and a longer history of success at the NHL level. Goalies are voodoo so who knows how any turnout in the long haul, but Knight has never been below .90 and Soda has only been above once with each having parts of 4 NHL seasons.

That said goalies generally bring little in trade value so I am not in a hurry to flip Soda for a late 2nd or 3rd....but if he is desireable enough to someone on a package that we can get to a better pick as a sum of pieces as opposed to seperate. A 1st for both Donato and Soda is of way more interest than trading both for 2nds in seperate deals....as we are at the point of needing quality not quantity in picks. We've made enough picks the last 3 drafts and have enough stacked up the next couple that we need to turn our nose up to more 2nds/3rds and actively be looking to package 2nds to get more 1sts.
 
Putt Pirate said:
I don’t get this pining for him. He has sucked in Carolina. Imagine how bad he would be here.
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Having had a look at Rantanen without MacKinnon, I'd be wary of entering into a bidding war for him. And given that two good teams have tried and failed to get him under contract, I sure as hell wouldn't trade away anything to find out if the Hawks would have better luck.
 
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Giovi said:
Having had a look at Rantanen without MacKinnon, I'd be wary of entering into a bidding war for him. And given that two good teams have tried and failed to get him under contract, I sure as hell wouldn't trade away anything to find out if the Hawks would have better luck.
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Trying to think of someone who cost themselves more $ on next contract and the only one that came to mind was John Klingberg turning down $8m per from Dallas.
 
Hawks now can also beca 3rd party team o absorb a cap hit for remainder of this season...usually that could bring another 2nd.

Eventually you parlay extra picks quantity forca mobevup in roundconevto get a better prize.


As to Donato...heard Ottawa onevofvthevtramscthat want him...you trade him to a team at the bubble and hope they falter and not make the pkayogfs or they get eliminated in roundvone...ratger than trade hom to a more probable Cup front runner team and so a later pick .


A top contender may be forced to give up a problem late first or 2 seconds ..a bubble team might give up a 2nd and a 3rd..

If Donato helps a top realistic Cup frontrunner ner maintain success all the way thru to SC then a late firstborc2 seconds price was worth the gamble...I a bubnlevteam with Donato goes deep to Confetence Final or SC then they get a bargain for a later than expected 2nd and sone fiture 4rd.
 
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The Hawks can also become a third-party team to absorb a cap hit for the remainder of this season. Usually, this could bring in another second-round pick.

Eventually, you can parlay extra picks into more opportunities to move up in the draft and get a better prize.

As for Donato, I’ve heard that Ottawa is one of the teams that wants him. You can trade him to a bubble team and hope they falter and fail to make the playoffs, or get eliminated in the first round. This is better than trading him to a Cup contender, where you might not get as high of a pick.

A top contender might be forced to give up a late first-round pick or two seconds. A bubble team, however, might give up a second and a third.

If Donato helps a top contender maintain success all the way through to the Stanley Cup, then giving up a late first-round pick or two seconds would be worth the gamble. If a bubble team with Donato makes a deep run to the Conference Final or the Stanley Cup, then they would have gotten a bargain with a later-than-expected second-round pick and some future fourth-round picks.
 
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