Deal is very close right now. They're just haggling over how much of Ben Chiarot's salary Detroit will be retaining.
Or Chiarot is still debating whether to waive his no trade clause……..
Oh wouldn’t that be icing on the cake for this whole Debrincat saga??
In all seriousness though, we have to give Dorian some credit here. He’s gone for it twice over the last year now. Unfortunately he doesn’t do it enough. So when it doesn’t work, it looks bad.
People forget how many of these big moves Vegas has made, that haven’t worked out too. I give Dorian a ton of credit for being aggressive on this and on Chychrun. It’s worked for Vegas in the long run, so hopefully Dorian doesn’t become “gun shy” when it comes to making these aggressive moves.
If Konecny is available, they should jump right back into it. At least he’d be in Ottawa 2 years and they’d likely have a better shot at an extensIon with him.
None of us know what the return is ultimately going to be for Debrincat, but they really should call Philly immediately afterwards and offer whatever it ends up being… for Konecny.