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What the Canucks would have to do to trade up for Jack...
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"Asking league sources to get an idea of the package required to make a team think about trading down from the top two picks, it’s clear people in the NHL have a different perspective of Hughes’ worth than many fans, especially in Vancouver.
“It would take a Lindros package,” one said
The Quebec Nordiques, of course, traded Eric Lindros — considered a generational talent — to the Philadelphia Flyers in one of the league’s biggest deals, one that laid the groundwork for a Colorado Avalanche dynasty team.
Quebec got Steve Duchesne, a big-time point-producer on the blueline, Kerry Huffman, another defenceman, Ron Hextall, Mike Ricci, the 25th-overall selection in the 1990 draft (Chris Simon), two first-round picks, $15 million and Peter Forsberg, a future superstar.
If it really would take a Lindros-like deal from the Canucks, and it does make sense because the New York Rangers have little motivation to trade out of a spot where they can add a franchise player, how the heck could the Canucks come up with something close?
This is how another NHL person put it:
“Three or four firsts. Four seconds and Vancouver takes back Marc Staal and Brendan Smith (who have a combined cap hit of roughly $10 million for the next two seasons).
“That’s a broad outline. It’s the same as trading for Elias Pettersson or Auston Matthews, really.”
That’s some outline. And there was another possible outline including both Bo Horvat and Troy Stecher.
It would be this year’s first, a 2020 unprotected first, two second-round picks, Horvat, Stecher and one more player and take back all that cap space."
