Nemec and Luke Hughes will both have to play out their ELCs and then possibly short bridge deals before they get a 7-9 contracts. That is 4 or 5 years before the Devil's have to worry.
It was a Tom Fitzgerald master plan and the Devils should thank their lucky stars that Q. Hughes doesn't play for Toronto, NYR, Chicago, Boston, or Pittsburgh (i.e. teams that receive open preferrential treatment from the league) otherwise the Devils would have been fined with a tampering charge.
i acutally think jt miller for hamilton makes more sense for both teams. Canucks still have center depth and a ton of wingers and nemec/luke hughes are the future of that blue line. They definitely need more 2way dmen and not really hamilton, but hamilton would definitely be better than having the D they have now.
I'd be open to considering that but my concern is that the Canucks lockerroom is weak right now and I'm not sure if Dougie Hamilton is the best team guy. Him and Hughes (or OEL-Hamilton) might look pretty good together though. Who knows. I have no freakin' clue what's going on with my Canucks right now, lol.
If you read my original comment that’s exactly what I said. Can’t ignore the future and when you have 9 million tied up for Hamilton 8 million tied up for Hughes another 8 million tied up between Seigenthaler Marino And three years from now Luke Hughes and Nemec request 7-9 Does it really make sense to have $8 million in our back end on the bottom 6? Or a 7-9 million defenseman on the third pairing?
You might be right but I still have a right to be overly dramatic and vent to those willing to listen don't I? :-p
Luke and Nemec are not going to command that much straight away. After their ELC deals expire, I expect a bridge contract signed. By end of that deal, Marino and Quinn's contracts would be finished. Sigenthaler would have one year left
Marino would still have one year and Siegs two. Either way they will not be making peanuts.
My apologies, I missed your initial post.
If Vancouver thinks that he isn't going to get better or round out his two-way game, but he's still young and other teams disagree and believe in his potential, trading him now would be the most logical thing for Vancouver to do. If you project that your player's trade value is going to get worse and worse over time, you don't see the player being there in 5 years and you aren't a playoff team, you trade them as soon as possible.
So we trade Hughes for a bunch of garbage? cmon man thats really trying to rip off Canucks. We get the worst contract in NHL history for a young star player in Hughes and 1 year of Myers who is still a top 4?? Like Mario Ferraro going to make a difference? Thats like Canucks trading OEL and Hoglander for Timo Mier and Hertl. Cant believe why Vancouver would make such a dumb trade. If they made that trade, I would just cheer for another team.
The trade could have all kinds of stuff attached to it, perhaps even two 1st rounders and Wiesblatt, hypothetically. I didn't include the picks and prospects but I specified that there could be pieces added to either side of the deal. Just wanted to focus on the NHL roster, cap, contract aspects.
No trading him is stupid. Canucks would then look for another Hughes or another offensive dman who probably wont be that good defensively. Should we also trade Pettersson then rry to draft another Pettersson which is not even a guarantee? I mean its complete stupidity unless Canucks are gerting 3 or 4 prospect that includes 2 blue chippers for Hughes. Like Hughes for Clark, Spence and Durzi. Canucks cant afford to lose Pettersson and Hughes for crap when thats probably the only high value players they have which they can build around them or trade them since they are still pretty young.
Hpw about no, Canucks can trade with Kings for better pieces. SJ doesnt have anything of value that I want. Kings have Clark, Spence, Grant etc.
I never said "trade Hughes for crap", I said trade him while his value is high if management doesn't think he'll improve and they don't see him sticking around to be part of their playoff success in 5 years. Yes, I feel the same way about Pettersson. IF you think he won't want to stick around until 2027 or later, and you also think you have no shot at all of winning the cup in the next few years, then it might make sense to try and swap him for some high potential picks / prospects / very young players.
why is Devils always the team that is discussed when trading Hughes? Like therr arent 30 other teams we could deal with???? Oh right because Devils have Hughes so he has to go there lol. Maybe Canucks can trade Quinn Hughes for Jack Hughes
It needs to be very high profile prospects that are guaranteed to make impact in NHL. No magic beans, no draft picks or second tier prospects. When it comes to trading young star players with NHL pedigree and high potential, the price is very very high. Like trading Stutzle or Jack Hughes. So it would need minimum 2 blue chip prospects plus a 1st rounder and thats the starting price if the team even wants to trade them which is very rare.
Ryan Gosling as Ken ain't no drama queen foo! :-pthat looks like a drama queen don't you think?
