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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Our first round pick will highly probably never play in the NHL consistently and Dube is enormously overrated on this site. But for the hell of it even if you’re right, which is improbable, are you aware of what Panarin is?
Here are people Panarin is tied in points with: Marchand, Ovechkin, Tkachuk, Aho.
I would do that trade in a heartbeat and I loathe giving up our first. Stone is replaceable by multiple people and Dube is a fringe NHLer.
You’re talking about acquiring a bonafide NHL (super?) star. Like... holy smokes. Really? I borderline am wondering if you’re drunk here.
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While I agree with your premise, isn’t acquiring Panarin almost universally viewed as a rental by almost any team that looks to acquire him? All indications are that not only is he likely not signing in Columbus, but he’s not even interested in negotiating with anyone until free agency which ostensibly means he’s going either the high bidder or somewhere that he really wants to be (speculation is east coast). I don’t believe that the offers for Panarin will be very enticing given the situation. That all said, I don’t know why Columbus would deal him while they’re still in the playoff hunt unless the lffer was really good. But if they slide and are firmly out of the race by the deadline then I think they have to consider trades like the aforementioned