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Originally Posted by The Cobra
I don't get this. Andersson is not going to be a core piece of a contending Flames team.
The reason to trade him is to speed up the rebuild by collecting assets who may be part of the core going forward.
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Exactly this. Not saying both these trades could happen but I think individually they could each happen.
Trade 1
Anderson and a 3rd to Ottawa for the 7th overall
Logic for Ottawa is they really want to rebalance their defence and get two strong RD to go with Chabot and Sanderson. If they think they can trade Chychrun for a mid 1st and two seconds (or equivalent) they could well think that switching those two dmen out for the next two years and trading 7 for a mid first, two seconds and a 3rd is worth it for how it improves their team for the next two years. They definitely view themselves as a team that should be in the playoffs, they may well see the value in those two transactions because I don’t see them trading Chyrchrun for futures and not getting a RD back and the RD back has to be cheap because they only have 16.7 million (if they trade Chychrun) to sign 8 players including Pinto and a top 4 RD. So they probably do not want to spend more than 4.5 million on a RD given their cap restrictions. Those cost parameters for their RD would leave them about 9-10 million for 6 players (one dman and 5 forwards)
Trade 2
Markstrom (50% retained) and a 3rd for the Devils 10th overall.
They need a goalie, Markstrom is one of the best on the market and the other two goalies that are maybe available (Ullmark and Saros) would cost 5 million as I doubt either of those teams want to eat salary to move those guys.
If you make either or both of those trades you supercharge the rebuild. You also almost guarantee you won’t be great for the next two years and could quite easily expect to have two more picks in the top 10 by June 2026.