By all accounts Kesler loves Denver (along with the Avs) and wouldn't be an issue to re-sign... but there would be a concern of him not aging well.
Still is an awful lot to give up.
Then wait two years.
By all accounts Kesler loves Denver (along with the Avs) and wouldn't be an issue to re-sign... but there would be a concern of him not aging well.
Still is an awful lot to give up.
You better really like that Agozzino-Smith-Everberg pairing and you'll be seeing it on the Avs because with that deal you've left them with literally no other prospects.
Kesler will be a UFA in 2 years. He could walk and we'll have absolutely nothing left after gutting the cupboard and setting it on fire.
Here's my crazy plan (with the assumption that a deal can't be reached with Staz). And that this team is ready to compete for a championship now and for the next 5 years rather than 3-5 years down the road.
I would target a top line winger to play with ROR and Dutch with some grit and trade-PAP, Elliot, Pickard, Rights to Staz and 2014 1st to the Jets for E. Kane and a 2014 3rd (becomes a 2nd if Staz resigns).
Next would be a top-4 LHD, going off grid on this one and offer sheeting RFA Brenden Dillon a 5yr/5AAV, going that high for potential and so that Dallas won't match, this would forfeit the Avs 2015 1st and 3rd round picks.
Trade Wilson as a salary dump to a low cap team, Buffalo, for a 5th round pick.
Resign RFAs: ROR to a 6yr/6AAV, MCG to a 3yr/3AAV, Barrie 2yr/3AAV and UFA: Malone to a 2YR/1.0AAV.
Sign UFAs: Kulemin 4yr/3.5AAV, Gilbert 2yr/1.25AAV
Malone is a UFA this summer. Not sure he'll even be brought back for next season, let alone anything beyond that.
Trading away two consecutive first round picks should not be an option. That would mean that from the 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 drafts, the Avs would only have one first round pick, and they don't have a second round this year either. The best teams, Boston, Chicago, LA, etc. have guys in the AHL ready to step in with injuries or if guys are lost to free agency. We don't have that.
It's also not exactly easy to replace depth forwards in the bottom 6, and you seem to be acting like it is. It certainly isn't easy when you've traded away anyone below that.
-Trade the 23rd overall+Parenteau+3rd to Phoenix for 12th overall. Draft Haydn Fleury.
-Stastny's rights to New Jersey for a 2014 3rd.
-McGinn+Elliott+2nd 2015 to Ottawa for Jared Cowen and Zach Smith.
-Duncan Siemens to Buffalo for Marcus Foligno
-Re-sign O'Reilly, Barrie
-Sign Matt Green, Mike Cammalleri, Milan Michalek
O'Reilly-Duchene-Cammalleri
Landeskog-MacKinnon-Michalek
Foligno-Mitchell-Talbot
McLeod-Smith-Bordeleau
Hejda-EJ
Cowen-Barrie
Holden-Greene
Wilson-Guenin
Await the arrival of Fleury and Bigras, watch Cowen develop into a top-pairing player and become EJ's partner, be one of the meanest teams in the West.
Love the idea of getting Cowen, but I think it would cost a lot more than that. The guy is only 23 and already getting top4 minutes and putting up effective D numbers. Plus he is on a great contract, and Ottawa has plenty of cap space. I dont see why they would get rid of him for anything less than a star forward. Im sure they see him much like we do a Lando or Johnson- pretty untouchable. I sure wish this were possible though.
-Trade the 23rd overall+Parenteau+3rd to Phoenix for 12th overall. Draft Haydn Fleury.
-Stastny's rights to New Jersey for a 2014 3rd.
-McGinn+Elliott+2nd 2015 to Ottawa for Jared Cowen and Zach Smith.
-Duncan Siemens to Buffalo for Marcus Foligno
-Re-sign O'Reilly, Barrie
-Sign Matt Green, Mike Cammalleri, Milan Michalek
O'Reilly-Duchene-Cammalleri
Landeskog-MacKinnon-Michalek
Foligno-Mitchell-Talbot
McLeod-Smith-Bordeleau
Hejda-EJ
Cowen-Barrie
Holden-Greene
Wilson-Guenin
Await the arrival of Fleury and Bigras, watch Cowen develop into a top-pairing player and become EJ's partner, be one of the meanest teams in the West.
Then wait two years.
This. Kesler is not exactly #1 priority for us. Of course he could help us, but he's not gonna push us over the to. We need first pairing defemsena first. I would rather spend all my assests on that first..
Have you watched him play the last couple years? Hes regressed, and makes absolutely mind boggling bad decisions in the defensive zone.
Hes physical, but that's about it... Hes turning into Shenn, and his development curve has stagnated, and even regressed for two years now.
Low hockey IQ makes me want to stay away from that...
But why use every single asset to get a forward when you can get one as a UFA? Yes you'll pay a little more but Kesler's salary isn't cheap and he's going to need a raise in 2 years.
Not really. Looks really promising on paper to me.
Who is saying use everything on just Kesler?
And who in FA is a similar type player? I see guys who are similar style, but not on the same level talent wise. The guys on the same talent level have different styles. For me its not about adding another talented player but one who has a certain skill set. Callahan would be the closest thing in FA but he is undersized for that style and very overrated. I wouldnt even attempt to try and get into that wasted cap space.
I would be curious o hear some guys who are a little younger but in the same mold (big, physical, great D, goal scorer) that could be other potential trade targets.
I suggested a Gaustad-Parenteau swap way back around the deadline. It seems like it would be a Roy type trade. It's a swap I could seriously see happen.If the Avs can't move Parenteau for a decent defenseman, one trade I'd like to see is one that sends him to Nashville for Paul Gaustad.
Gaustad is definitely overpaid - 3.25 million cap hit the next two seasons - but he brings two things Colorado was sorely lacking in the post season: size and face-off ability. IMO Colorado could use a player like him to fill the role Jarret Stoll fills for Los Angeles.
Forgot he existed. Don't sign Michalek and plug Tangs in.Where does Tangs fit into this?
If this guy exists, whose trading him?
Not really. Looks really promising on paper to me.