Goalies aren't worth much in trades in the cap era.
If we offered Adam Fox, 31 teams pick up the phone.
If Igor is on the block, there's like 2 or 3 teams that are going to be willing/able to pay the price.
Because you can only have one starter, either most teams with a starter wouldn't be in the market, or they would have to send that starter back because of the cap. We would end up trading Igor for a worse goalie and a small add.
I would rather let him walk and go cheap in goal.
You are not wrong about the bold [disagree otherwise] BUT
bottom line is yr comment is moot.
Sure max # of suitors drives up return to its highest, theoretically, but we only need 1 who will give ballpark what we want for a deal to make sense.
We can not have all the toys money can buy all the time due to cap.
The best we can do is be smart about constantly acquiring, and then repurposing young talent, and when we get a high end guy like this, flip him for top dollar or closest to.
There is value to recovering cap but that is vs letting talent -> production walk.
Each situation dif
no monolith
Also, it would be crazy stupid to deal Garand since his value is not established and based on upside.
Smart move is deal Shesty, insert Garand
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Am open to consider other scenarios, but TML = a fit.
They can't give their base more of the same.
Nylander ++ for Shesty + Zib + = high risk, but it gives them dif maker in net and w/Matthews, at C.
Nylander is also a gamble but on paper we flip Zib's better physical + big contract for Nyl scoring.