Chicago wants to bottom, so i would say for the same reasons they did not keep a 2 time 40+ goal scorer who is only 24 year old with elite scoring touch...
if cap was the issue with them, they have other overpaid players to trade.
Don't think it was about the cap with Debrincat, they had 2 years of team control left and they won't be good again in 2 years.
I liked him for his hits. But he was a 3 or 4 at best for me.
The moment Dach scores 50 pts. This trade needs to be romy + 1st pick to acquire him. I like the trade.
Honestly, I just think theirs GM want to be the worst team in the league for 3/4 years and get the best pick possible each year. Keeing dach/debrincat wouldnt help to make happen his strategy.
They acquired the pick specifically to get him.
Ok.
Well apart from the top 4 prospects, Lekkerimaki was amongst the players taken to dinner by the Habs, so they were definitely very interested in him. The Habs were interested, and he was available at 13, yet they opted to trade the pick for Dach, this shows how high they value Dach. Given all that, I’m looking forward to how Dach pans out.
They did not "decide" to trade pick 13. Chicago was demanding that pick to trade Dach. And Dach was the centerman Hughes wanted because he knew they would draft a winger, Slafovsky at #1. That Romanov -pick 13-Dach was done before the draft.
You don’t think for a second they stopped to look at who was available at 13 and also took that into account before they made their decision? Not doing that is dumb and HuGo don’t come across as that to me.
Yeah okay, fair enough. After writing that I remembered that the trade was after the 3rd overall pick. So there’s that too.
The fact we're loaded at LD also helps reducing the potential backfiring of the trade. We lost a good young LD, but we have Guhle, Harris, Xhekaj, Norlinder, Hutson, Struble, the swedish dude we picked in 2022, etc. I'm not worried at all.
