Pac is gonna be a ufa, Petry and Alzner have borderline negative value with there contracts and lindgren's worth like a 3rd or 4th.
They get a year of Patches, hence the draft pick.
Alzner is not 'negative value' but his contract is a bit steep --- he would likely look better somewhere he can play near the bottom of the roster instead of the top, and it's no surprise they Habs want to shed his contract, hence the draft pick.
Petry is the furthest thing from 'negative value' the dude is one of the league's best 2nd pairing PMDs on a very sweet contract. He's not even sniffing Subban levels of elite by any means, but he is also nearly half the price of Subban playing similar minutes/role and definitely better than half as good.
So Esa Lindell disappears into thin air I guess? As well as Johns/Pitlick/Ritchie/Shore/Elie/Smith? Lindell is better than all 3 Dmen mentioned here on our left side.
I won't pretend to fully understand your depth chart -- originally I offered Byron but it seems as if your team is deep enough after bringing in the three forwards in my proposal that you don't need a player like Byron. What your 2RW and 4th line looks like is truly beyond me, but I doubt any player in your depth chart is better than the top 9 (barring your 2RW) I proposed above. You add a perennial 35 goal scoring winger, as well as an elite 2nd pairing PMD at the very least. Flip Alzner to a team like Arizona or VGK if you really don't need him, but ultimately the point would be to give you guys a depth, playoff experienced defenseman who can play tough minute and kill penalties at the very least. He is a comparable to Dan Hamhuis, and some would argue better (not sure if I agree with that sentiment or not this year). The Habs are taking a notable risk in trading so many pieces including our best defenseman not named Shea Weber, but I think there is value on both sides.
The entire objective of the NHL is to try and win a Stanley Cup, and with your franchise core of Seguin/Benn (elite core of Tickles and Bishop) getting older with every passing year, there comes a time that the Stars need to start transitioning towards a rebuild, or push towards a cup --- what better time than when you can add an elite goal scorer and a solid PMD for the price of 1 player (and also pick up Kovalchuk/Bring Nuke home simultaneously) to completely fix your teams biggest issue (scoring after your 1st line gets off the ice).
If Stars fans aren't interested, that's fine --- I thought it was a well balanced offer, as both teams address major needs, and it doesn't gut the Habs youth, or ability to compete this upcoming season (The loss of Petry and Patches hurts, but we would move into Free Agency with over 30m in cap space to completely revamp our roster).
Heiskanen is not for sale unless there's a proven young asset (probably 22 or younger) that is already what he is projected - a top pair or top line player - coming back.
Posts like this completely ruin my faith in using these forums --- Why would any team in their right mind trade a young, cost controlled, proven asset for a player that is projected to be 'as good' as what they already have? No team would ever in their right mind do that, because you could end up with a Sam Reinhart or Noah Hanifin instead of Jacob Trouba or John Klingberg (Not to say the former are slouches, but the latter are infinitely better players). When a team moves a prospect, the entire purpose is to 'win now' and moving Heiskanen would never fetch you a player under 24 years old that is already a top line player --- you get an equally unproven prospect in a different role, or you get older cup contributing players and enter a 'win now' mode
The Habs also need quantity and not just one high quality prospect. They are going to be a worse team for a couple years if they get rid of Patch and Petry anyway.
I don't agree. The Habs are miserable in 3 areas:
1. C
2. LD
3. RD
Moving Petry, Alzner and Patches for Heiskanen gives us a left side moving forward of Mete/Heiskanen and a right side of Juulsen (in terms of ready prospects).
It also leaves us with nearly 30m in cap. Tavares at 7x 12m-13m, CDH at 5x 4-5m, John Carlson at 7 x 7m (to replace Petry), Mike Green at 3 x 4.5m-5m, Markov (I wish) at 2x 4m, Neal at 3 x 5m, Stastny at 4 x 4m --- JVR, Evander Kane --- all possible options. Tons of very talented players that can fix our scoring woes, and our defensive troubles short term while we look to build through the draft. We still get a top 6 pick in this years draft, and two other seconds this year to add serious depth.
If we look to move Weber in a season or two, we can expect quite a few prospects back from that (so long as his foot recovers properly and he's not a shadow of himself)
Dallas:
Pacioretty (50% retained)
Jeff Petry
Charlie Lindgren
Chicago's 2018 2nd rd pick
Mtl:
Heiskanen
Jason Robertson
Dallas 2018 1st rd pick
Dallas 2018 2nd rd pick
Jason Spezza (Cap dump)
The Stars have no inclination to move their draft pick when their prospects (wingers aside) are getting to run thin as well.
Robertson is one of their best prospects, but he also plays a position where the Habs are far too deep to begin with (If Galchenyuk spends the rest of his career as a left winger, Drouin/Galchenyuk is an elite 1/2 - Lehkonen is 3)
Spezza will never waive his NMC (unless that runs out in the last year of his deal or something?) to go to a Canadian team, let alone the Canadians. He made it very clear he doesn't like Canada when he left the Sens.
Habs not clearing the Alzner contract hurts them more than it helps them, as he's not better then Mete, and if Heiskanen can step in you would want Heisk on the bottom pairing. That leaves Alzner as the 2LD, where anyone would rather have a player like Calvin de Haan.
All that aside, the value for Montreal is way too ridiculous there. Dallas guts their future entirely which is entirely the point of me adding draft picks in the original deal. They should not give up their best prospect AND two top 60 draft picks for the package proposed.