Value of: Your Team's best offer for Noah Dobson
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samsagat
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That kind of defenseman rarely gets traded, even less when they're not even in their prime and already performing like elite.
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Just what the isles need another 30 and 34 year old veteran.
Trading Dobson right now is peak stupidity.
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Barzal sort of replaces EP...without him in the deal, the Canucks would still need a second line centre otherwise as they are competing now. Trading EP for Dobson alone would make the Canucks much worse. A big part of this trade is because the op thought the Islanders may go in a different direction and maybe wouldn't want to commit huge dollars to Dobson who is having an up and down season (along with Barzal and Pettersson). Isles get a franchise centre and Canucks get a solid top pair Dman and a solid 1B/second line centre.
Cap wise, Barzal = $9.15; Dobson = $4M (for now); total = $13.15...Pettersson = $11.6M so the Canucks need to create $1.55M of space which I believe they would have by waiving the RD who is losing their spot to Dobson along with what they left in space.
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I gotta say, I'm a little shocked to see so many Canucks fans offering up EP. What's going on with him?
He got paid. He might come around, and EP will be given leeway, but if he doesn’t start remotely playing like a 11.5 million dollar player Canuck management will explore.
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As a Canucks fan, I don’t do it. EP is IMO the best player in the deal and the only reason I do this is to reallocate some funds to RD and 2C rather than pay two players 1C money (Pettersson and Miller) and have Myers in the top 4 on D. Nelson is too short-term an asset.
In my case, you have to give to get. Canucks pay two guys to be #1C but essentially have a two #5D on their second pair.
Dobson gives the Canucks a solid second pair while Barzal adequately replaces Pettersson as 2C. Just filling gaps.
Before last year, there was discussion of who is better, Hughes vs Pettersson, now Canucks fans think Hughes is generational while Pettersson isn’t a franchise. It’s just too over-reactionary. Just like when Boeser when from Calder finalist untouchable, to garbage that they couldn’t dump, back to all-star top liner all by the age of 26.
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Montreal (fans proposals) however think Josh Anderson/Brendan Gallagher, a top 25 protected 1st and some C prospect of a fair offer for Dobson.
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11.6 million on the cap. Possible that he hasn't made a full recovery on those injuries as well.
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That's true, but not me.
The "cap dump" going back might be Savard, so really a player to still help the Islanders be competitive and getting other assets with him and if things don't work out, he can be dealt for a 2nd +, or maybe a 1st at the deadline.
That's of course today. If there is an opening to trade Dobson it's likely in the off-season, or trade deadline where Savard makes 0 sense, unless the Habs retain, then the Islanders retain to make him super cheap and get more assets for the Islanders.
So, if the Islanders were to deal him, what would be the targets the Islanders are looking for ? Forwards, futures, picks, a combination of everything
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Had to check puckpedia to see contracts. If Savard had term, I wouldn’t even touch that contract. The Islanders need high end prospects and 1sts they can develop for the future. The Habs however won’t give up either of those honestly since those are the upper echelon. Those overhyped prospects because a specific team has them (I.e. Nick Robertson or similar) won’t do it.
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