I could be talked down from Willander for sure, although maybe not.
It’ll be fun to see who they get up in Canuckland.
Really hard to compete in the nhl without two sincere scoring threats inside the top 6. I bet if you made a robust list of the available options, it’s hard to argue against a guy in Kyrou who is cost controlled - signed prior to inflation cap, superlative at a small subset of nhl skills (consistently around or among leaders in puck carry/zone entries combined with 50/50 split in goals assists throughout career lightly implying a speed and playmaking skillset - Taylor Hall-esque), clean injury history, not having a bad season, is not hyper streaky or a drama queen.
If the person Vancouver finds is signing after today then they’re going to find out players are expensive now.
We shall see. You get what you pay for.
Framework of the deal is based on Sakic moving Duchene and capturing the third leg of the value for Colorado due to taking mostly futures and prospects as their end of the deal while the two other teams got nhlers. Nashville upgraded their nhler and they paid to do so despite Turris having 2 years of term. The senators then had to pay their share too. At this time, the Turris in the deal is Boesser and he’s expiring.