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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald

The only way they should be coughing up an asset to protect Giordano is if that asset leads to Seattle taking a bad contract off their hands. A 2022 2nd should have them take either Lucic or Backlund with their pick.

LOL @ Lucic and Backlund in the same sentence as bad contracts. One is ~$500k overpaid, the other is ~$3M overpaid.

Originally Posted by dino7c

If Gio is there he will be taken unless there is a side deal

Disagree.

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No guarantee SEA takes Gio even if he's exposed. The impression is that they want to draft the min. possible salary and then extort more value in trades.

They need to draft 48.9M in AAV. Assuming 20 guys average around 1M, that means they need to draft a surplus of ~$29M.

Possibilities
Goalies (Quick, Allen, Holtby, Khudobin, etc.)

Voracek/JVR...

TBL: McDonagh/Cernak, or I wouldn't be surprised if they offered a Gourde+T Johnson package

COL: need to do something about their 4 D...you can probably pencil $4M+ from them (maybe they go 4-4 and expose Kadri or Donskoi)

MIN: Dumba/Hartman/Rask/Talbot - probably some $$$ one way or the other

MTL: Chiarot/Edmundson...maybe even Byron (or Jake Allen)

NAS: They might go 4-4 and maybe even expose a Duchene or Johansen. (Kunin, Arvidsson, Forsberg...)

PIT: McCann/Rust/Matheson

Other $$$$ D:
Risto/C Miller
Gio
Skjei/Gardiner or Bean (pending RFA...maybe CAR gets creative to try to keep him)
Zadorov/De Haan, though ELC Riley Stillman may be attractive


I suppose my point is that SEA won't have much trouble drafting that surplus $29M, especially with defensemen (lots of LD at that). It's hard to play out the scenario without knowing the actual protection lists, or knowing how coveted certain prospects might be on these teams that have established $$$ players.

Originally Posted by Geeoff

I wonder if the Flames will even qualify Kylington. Capfriendly says he is arbitration eligible. I don't think he is in the Flames plans TBH

Zero risk in qualifying him IMO; he's not getting a raise out of arbitration, certainly not $1M+.

Originally Posted by Demetric

I do not think Seattle is thinking of flipping assets at the deadline, I think they are wanting to make the playoffs just like everyone else. I think it is funny that people think they will go for assets they can flip at the deadline.

Truth is no one really knows what they are going to do. Yes, Vegas was/is an outlier but who says Seattle does not try and replicate.

Sign a UFA that is 50-50 to stay in league cause he is a home town guy ... sounds very familiar, wonder if that has happened before, oh yeah, Vegas did that exact thing with England.

Not to mention that Ryan has good 'fancy stats' which iirc Seattle values.

I think Seattle is going to be playing many games, even if they are targeting Ryan, they will be talking with BT about what if we were to take Gio and immediately flip (more worried about this than a deadline flip) him to try and get additional assets out of BT.

It will be interesting however it shakes out.

I suspect SEA will want to keep their options as open as possible. Trying to compete immediately, but with assets that serve a Plan B of being valuable for the next few TDLs.

I do wonder what the UFA market is like for Ryan. The Flames need to sign at least one plug to meet exposure requirements (probably Ritchie), but maybe they try to sign Ryan in advance, too, knowing that he might get picked.