Gallagher has officially been put off the table for me. Either a team overpays, or he is the Habs next captain. So easy no to either offers. Ive been that impressed with him. Thats if we do dont in fact rebuild.
But if the habs do consider a full rebuild, I would say yes to the 9OA pick + something better than Strome.
Strome is the absolute median player on the Oilers. He’s perfectly middling. There’s not much else we could add.
There’s a cluster of assets I would consider more valuable or less available than he is that I would say are off the table as an addition to 9th - McDavid, Drai, Nuge, Nurse, Klefbom, Larsson, 2019 1st, Khaira, Puljujarvi, Yamamoto, Benson, Jones, Bear, Skinner, Samorukov, Maksimov, Marody, and Safin. It might not be a pure value thing with these guys, could be things like in Maksimov/Samorukov/Skinner’s case they’re outperforming their draft position and trending really well.
And then there are a cluster of assets less valuable or bigger gambles than Strome that are available - pieces like later picks, Kassian, Benning, Wells, Lagesson, Mantha, Ellis, Montoya, Sekera, etc.