who are the teams that would prefer a 1st round pick over a u23 player?
anaheim
arizona
chicago
columbus
montreal
nashville (?)
philly (?)
san jose
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st. louis (?? - they're more re-tool than rebuild so don't think they'd be interested)
detroit (same as above, but obviously the hronek trade contradicts that)
ottawa (think they're in the same position as us, especially after the chychrun trade)
- ducks aren't moving mactavish, but if the emergence of zellweger has them wanting to move drysdale, yeah i'd absolutely move the pick. vice versa would be interesting value wise, but zellweger might not be a fit behind hughes. no interest in zegras.
- from arizona, i would have taken chychrun straight up (at 9th overall), don't know if i'd take hayton, don't think i'd take maccelli (or moser)
- chicago has already traded their interesting pieces in dach and debrincat; don't think there's anything there unless they want to move korchinski for some reason
- columbus has interesting options (boqvist, sillinger, johnson, maybe even laine)... but with the gaudreau signing, why would they move any of those guys for a pick 3-4 years further away?
- don't think montreal has much that they would move - unless they want to pull a detroit and re-rebuild by flipping dach (or suzuki, but his contract negates the value that other u23 players have - although, if we move miller that would be an interesting option...). doubt they move caufield (not a good fit for us) or guhle
- nashville is very interesting if they do want to do a full tear down - parsinnen would be a good fit - but unless they're moving josi/forsberg/saros and committing for a 5+ year scorched earth approach, why not just go for the LA doughty/kopitar approach and build around them, in which case, why move contributing u23 players for picks rather than just continuing along the granlund path and flipping their older guys like duchene/johansen
- who knows what philly will do - but i'd take cam york. probably not farabee
- san jose is probably the most interesting option fit wise in terms of needing to go scorched earth, but idk what pieces they have right now that are interesting to the canucks positionally
those are the only moves i'd consider - no interest in a transaction where we're taking a lesser roster player to utilize this pick as a sweetener for a cap dump. i mean, unless we can package it or use it straight up to dump OEL, but don't think there's much chance of that happening.