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Originally Posted by Drury18
I'm sorry, but not a fan of this trade either for the Canucks.
I agree, Staal is worth a 1st rounder and STL currently holds two of them. Easily should have gotten one of those back.
I do see that the Canucks are only $6M below cap with 15 RFA's to sign, but looking at that team, Marc Staal is definitely a young, foundation piece on Defence you either keep or you trade high. Especially as he is 28 and RFA and could be signed to a nice 3 year RFA deal and get a good value on him to prolong signing him as a UFA. Building around Jack Johnson and Matt Carle isn't really the same in my opinion.
As a fellow rookie (who if you want to look back on posts, I got the same responses my first few trades) are you talking to other GM's about your deals? You've traded two elite defencemen in OEL and Staal (with a 3rd round pick) for:
Michael Chaput (3rd round pick of Flyers, limited NHL time)
2016 2nd round pick
2016 3rd round pick
Jaden Schwartz (1st round pick of Blues, solid 2nd line player with 1st line potential)
Anthony DeAngelo (late 1st round pick of Lightning, still in juniors)
I don't think you've gotten fair market value for either trade. Trading two guys like that should make your team stronger and I don't see you've done that at all.
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Marc Staal isnt worth a top ten pick, and topp call hi nnn elite is definitely a stretch. He isnt even a top pairing player in New York. I think you're defibition of Elite is pretty broad. You should probably be at least a top 30 defenseman to be considered elite.