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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
Suspect Norris is almost untradeable with his injury history. 8 million a year for another 6 years and the guy has 30 points this year in 50 games. Has to eventually be a 65-70 point guy to worth that contract.
The hard part would be getting Ottawa to do it, not Calgary. But living here I can say for sure that there is incredible public pressure to be good now. They have 4 seasons left of Tkachuk and nobody in Ottawa thinks if they run back this current group they will have a chance at the playoffs next year. They have 3 more years of Batherson on a killer deal.
There will be big changes in Ottawa this summer and I suspect they will be moving heaven and earth to get a top pair right dman. A decent argument could be made that the Sens have a top 3 in the league left side of their defence and a bottom 3 of the league right side of their defence. Rasmus immediately changes that. Moving Branstrom/Bernhard Docker down to third pair rather than having one of them always playing top 4 minutes changes their backend.
I am not saying it is likely but that is a team I would be looking at if I was Conroy.
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Good reason to be looking at them as a trade partner. If their pick is potentially on the table, it would be a great move to make something work around that. Conroy could use combinations of Coleman, Mangiapane, Andersson, Markstrom, and Vancouver’s first round pick as potential pieces to hopefully get a pick in the top half of the first round. Obviously not all of them would be traded in a single trade but putting retention on players like Mangiapane or Coleman could add value to those players that makes a team like Ottawa better right away.