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Originally Posted by Royle9

I'm not here proclaiming Monahan is our savior and way better than MZ but he's not much of a downgrade is isn't going to be paid north of 9M+ after 1 year here.

We also don't have to give up a much of our BEST assets in order to get Monahan as he's already here. My whole argument is based on the fact that I'm not willing to give up 1st round picks in either of the next 2 drafts + 1-2 of our top prospects (lets say Corronato & Zary) for 1 year of a cost controlled MZ and then give MZ a nice big hefty raise to say 9.5M x 6 for a 29 year old who's NOT MUCH BETTER than Sean IF AT ALL who we have for free right now.

That's my point

TLDR:

1. Keep Assets if we cant get Eichel
2. Dont trade assets to be 3rd wheel in a trade and end up with MZ
3. SM vs MZ is totally debatable and likely no real answer other than that fact that SM is free to the flames right now which makes it a better deal for the franchise.

Why would you think the cost to acquire MZ would be that high though? He's an expiring asset. I don't think anyone is suggesting you trade the Eichel package for MZ. It would obviously be a significantly smaller price. Rangers would be moving MZ because they need his cap space for Eichel.

It could be a 2nd round pick and a prospect like Kuznetsov for MZ and then turnaround and trade Monahan for a 2nd and 3rd round pick to Ottawa or something like that.

This way you get a bit of an upgrade on your current roster (change the core up a bit) and you aren't "gutting the future" either. For the "no to Eichel crowd", we also aren't taking on the massive contract risk.