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Originally Posted by gvitaly
I don't see Ottawa going for that blockbuster. You're overvaluing Weegar IMO. The OTT players are younger, and their contracts capture the prime of their career. I still think other teams would see Norris as a #1b C, and Chabot as a #2D that's often injured.
That's why I can see OTT getting younger assets back. Perhaps something like Cozens for Norris, Sanheim/Weegar for Chabot + 2nd to change the mix.
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Fair points but I disagree. I think Ottawa has made the same mistakes as Edmonton in their rebuild and gave the kids the keys to the city and now trying to insulate those kids with older players there is too big of an age gap. Edmonton had the Hall, Eberle, Nuge crew and they couldn’t relate to the Ference, Smyth greybeards. An Oilers fan in my office stated that the org admitted that was their biggest mistake in their tankbuild. Staios was only there for the beginning so he wouldn’t have as much memory of that.
But have no idea why Buffalo trades a younger, cheaper player with less injury history for Norris. I don’t touch the Weegar for Chabot+2nd trade if I am Calgary and I doubt the Flyers do that either with how much Sanhiem has seemed to improve this year. In both cases they take on almost $2M in cap to get a younger player but one who struggles in his own zone and has injuries.