Speculation: 2025 Trade/Free Agency Thread

[Zegs2sendhelp]

Realistically, I don't think Luneau/Zellweger and the 1st provide much value for Ottawa. I'm sure their ears would perk up if it was McTavish and Sennecke though. Or Carlsson 1-1. Ottawa doesn't need to settle for less right now.

Your basis that Ottawa is going to be forced to trade Tkachuk b/c he demands a trade is speculative at best and he is 3.5 years away from UFA status so they aren't losing him "for nothing" any time soon.

Everything on trade boards is speculative at best…. It’s essentially a fantasy board/thread. But I assume you know this based on your eichel trade talk history and how much “speculating” you did there

There’s also been reports of brady wanting out(I don’t put a ton of stock in it, but still smoke and allows discussion)

Anaheim has no reason to offer mctavish + sennecke because no one is going to be close to that offer

 

[tomd]

Everything on trade boards is speculative at best…. It’s essentially a fantasy board/thread. But I assume you know this based on your eichel trade talk history and how much “speculating” you did there

There’s also been reports of brady wanting out(I don’t put a ton of stock in it, but still smoke and allows discussion)

Anaheim has no reason to offer mctavish + sennecke because no one is going to be close to that offer

No need to get sensitive...you made a proposal and it wasn't particularly well thought out IMO since you are fundamentally wrong that Ottawa risks losing him "for nothing" any time soon. Working under the current reality, there is no reason for Ottawa to trade a budding superstar for anything less than a premium return. If he does someday formally request a trade then we can discuss what a fire sale trade might look like. But that isn't the situation right now.

 

[JAHV]

I could imagine Ottawa trading Tkachuk under the previous ownership regime. There's no reason to trade him now.

 

[robbieboy3686]

I think the reason ott trades tkachuk at some point, is because he makes it clear he wants to go somewhere else…. You can’t lose tkachuk for nothing.

Realistically I think a deal looks like

Mctavish + Luneau/zellweger + 1st

Maybe lesser pieces, that’s a pretty tough trade package for other teams to match

And we would happily trade that package too

Everything on trade boards is speculative at best…. It’s essentially a fantasy board/thread. But I assume you know this based on your eichel trade talk history and how much “speculating” you did there

There’s also been reports of brady wanting out(I don’t put a ton of stock in it, but still smoke and allows discussion)

Anaheim has no reason to offer mctavish + sennecke because no one is going to be close to that offer

Sennecke is untouchable