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[Ernie]

Trading a first if it’s protected for a non-rental is completely fine with me

I'd be ok with them doing another Hronek type trade for a player who is under team control beyond this season. Hopefully management has some irons in the fire.

 

[arttk]

i have an engineering degree and it was an enormous waste of time. i learned more about engineering in my anthropology and history electives than i did in my engineering courses

Not sure if it’s a waste of time, you can’t be a p Eng if you don’t have a credited degree.

I think the most helpful course for me was design engineering. I think the issue with college is you end up taking a lot of classes that doesn’t do anything depending on the field you enter. Strangely the most useful course from my 1st degree is logic.

 

[Bobby9]

Back on topic,

We need to dangle the 1st and Hog for a dman with term at this point

 

[Ernie]

teams want Hoglander??

Of course. Teams think they can fix his defensive issues and he's (usually) a very effective player in the offensive zone. No other player on the team has scored goals and generated chances at 5v5 at the rate he has over the past 3 seasons despite playing down the lineup for the most part. He may take some bad penalties, but he draws more than he takes.

He's a good player who's had a bad month.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

They made a good point on the radio he's still on the "bargain" contract for remainder of season, so yes I'd imagine this is the case since you have some contract flexibility on him until the new deal kicks in. Given that, your best bet would probably be to try to rehabilitate some of his value, and if you are going to move him do it closer to the deadline.

there absolutely needs to be a conversation between allvin and tocchet that goes something like,

“do you see a future for him here and are you willing to work with him and then give him opportunities to prove himself?”

and if the answer is no, then

“then you have to put him in positions to look good, cody hodgson style, to raise his value so we can move him for something you want”

 

[David71]

does alvin and his mangment team make a deal on the weekend or maybe after the buffalo game.?

 

[Vector]

does alvin and his mangment team make a deal on the weekend or maybe after the buffalo game.?

I doubt they do anything until after the road trip and know Miller’s timeline.

 

[David71]

I doubt they do anything until after the road trip and know Miller’s timeline.

the faster the move the better.

 

[bossram]

Back on topic,

We need to dangle the 1st and Hog for a dman with term at this point

Hoglander has very little trade value. He's basically a throw in.

 

[Hoglander]

Friday 5pm deal?

 

[ChilliBilly]

Back on topic,

We need to dangle the 1st and Hog for a dman with term at this point

A player under-performing his contract, and a 20th OA (estimated) 1st isn't going to get you a stud. It's going to get you a contract dump. And we don't want to take on much salary. We are finally not using LTIR to stay under the cap. You want a decent D-man to fill in for what Soucy was doing last year. We are going to have to add Lekk or Will to get a deal that improves our cap position. And I for one do not want to do that. Edit - Hogs is making $1.1M right now. So no trade is going to be cap viable. And once again people want to trade a player when his value is low.