Alright, will never happen but there is something mentally satisfying about blowing this team sky high after yet another season ending debacle last night...
Trade #1 at the draft:
To Ottawa - Matthew Tkachuk, Sam Bennett
To Calgary - Colin White, Josh Norris, 3rd overall, NYI 1st rounder, 33rd overall
This one is gonna piss some people off, but the goal in a blow up would be to make sure the next "era" actually has elite cup contending center depth.
Trade #2 at the draft:
To Buffalo - Sean Monahan, Noah Hanifin
To Calgary - Kyle Okposo (cap dump duh), Brandon Montour, William Borgen, Dylan Cozens, 8th overall
Trade #3 off season:
To Philly - Johnny Gaudreau, Oliver Kylington, Mark Jankowski
To Calgary - Oscar Lindblom, Travis Sanheim, Nolan Patrick
Trade #4 off season:
To NYI - Mark Giordano ($3,375,000 - 50% retained)
To Calgary - Thomas Hickey, Oliver Wahlstrom
With the retention combined with Hickey @ $2.5 million AAV the Isles would be replacing Hickey with Gio for $875k against the cap, same term. That's gotta worth a decent prospect no?
The draft trades are done on the draft floor when the Flames know Quinton Byfield is available at #3 and Jake Sanderson is available at #8.
Flames also pick 19th overall, early 20's with the Isles pick, 33rd overall (Sens) and 45th overall (Flames), plus a bunch of other mid and late round picks.
Key C prospects added:
Cozens, Byfield, Patrick, Norris
If you don't end up with a Cup contending center core from this then I don't know what to say.....
"Tank" roster for the next season:
Lindblom - Backlund - Lindholm (That's a SWEet line)
Mangiapane - Ryan - White
Dube - Nolan - Okposo
Lucic - Norris - Wahlstrom
Cozens and Byfield back to dominate juniors and the world juniors COVID pending
Ryan is a rental at the deadline
Backlund's NTC becomes limited during the next off season
Sanheim - Andersson
Hickey - Montour
Valimaki - Borgen
Sanderson and Mackey in the system
Rittich
Ritter the only NHL goalie signed, try to trade for Georgiev maybe?
Anyways, there is like $16 million of cap space left so I'd also try to get more assets by taking on cap dumps like the following:
Alzner from MTL
Bjugsadt from PIT
etc...
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