If Monahan does end up being part of the changes this summer - does Arizona make sense?
Everyone is talking about there having to be "hockey trades" due to the flat-cap...this would be a doozy:
To ARZ: Monahan, Hanifin, Rittich
To CGY: Dvorak, Ekman-Larsson, Raanta (50% retained), 2021 1st, Taylor Hall's negotiation rights
That'd be a pretty wild "hockey trade".
Calgary gets Dvorak who is under term longer and a touch younger, while Arizona gets what you could argue is an upgrade at centre.
Calgary changes the culture of the team bringing in Ekman-Larsson, who is about the same as Hanifin in terms of on-ice quality - however he carries a brutal 8.25M contract, placing him pretty firmly in that "effective but overpaid" range - and Calgary gets Arizona's 1st in 2021 to compensate.
Calgary gets a slight improvement in Raanta at 2.125M to run a tandem with the returning Talbot. Arizona brings in Rittich as the clear back-up to Kuemper, again part of Calgary taking on OEL's contract.
Hall - Dvorak - Tkachuk
Mangiapane - Backlund - Lindholm
Gaudreau - Bennett - Dube
Lucic - ? - ?
?
Ekman-Larsson - Andersson
Giordano - ?
Valimaki - ?
?
Talbot
Raanta
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