Every trade is its own trade these days, because of the cap. Ottawa and Chicago’s trade last year has no bearing on what happens with Debrincat now. That’s just where we are in today’s market.
It used to be, a 30 goal scorer would get a 1st, a prospect/young player and a rostered player. Like Shanahan traded to Detroit for a 1st, Primeau and Coffey. That was expected almost.
Today, who knows…. Like really, nobody does. Hell, I was told multiple things today from an active dman evaluator, who said he’s heard Detroit is doing evaluations on a few different Dmen from the Senators, and that that Philly and Calgary have been snooping around, gathering data on Detroit prospects, especially a couple of dmen. So who knows. This deal could be dead, or both teams are just crossing T’s. Maybe Detroit is doing another deal first. Maybe they’re after Konecny too. He’s from London. He’s also signed for two more years at $5.5, I think it is.
I think the deal likely still happens, but we shall see.
To me the fairest deal would be Berggren and a 1st rounder. Somehow I don’t think that’s what’s going to happen though.