[Caged Great]

I'm all for overpaying for this pick.

We need to have our "elite" prospects all being young, so that way when they come up together, we might have the ability to pull a Chicago and win like they did in 2010.

Anyone over the age of 24, with the only possible exception of Giordano is irrelevant for our future teams as it'll likely be 2-3 years before we're in playoff contention. If any of those players can be used for the purpose of adding a top prospect, then we should do that. Even prospects where we have redundancies like our insane LW depth for example should be used if we can get the opportunity to get a second top forward. All 4 of the forwards are in the range from Monahan-Domi skill wise last year. They are very good players.


The thing is that we can "replace" the guys that we trade rather easily. With possibly having 10-15 million in cap space needed to fill in order to hit the floor or more depending on who we might ship out, we can pay/overpay players to hit that floor.

Players that would make sense for us to sign (not necessarily them)

Paul Stastny - 28
Thomas Vanek - 30
Milan Michalek - 29
Ryan Callahan - 28
Marian Gaborik - 32
Dave Bolland - 28
Derrick Brassard - 26
Matt Moulson - 30
Devin Setoguchi - 27

and that's not counting the D or G. If you offered Callahan 6+ or Stastny 7+ for some decent term, it might make sense for both sides.

Just have to find the right guys and sign them to fill holes, that way we aren't stuck with Edmonton's lack of veteran problem.