I am trying to be a good sport about this trade. Happy we got a 1st. But that’s the only legitimate part of the deal. Why not make Vegas pay more by giving AP’s LTIR cap hit? Defer the 2026 1st to 2028 so you can pay up for another rental with another team? Give us Karlsson for us to flip? No Connelly or Ihz-Wozniak?
How generous of them to give us a defenseman they had to throw back at us for cap reasons, a prospect they selected in the last round of the 2022 draft, and a conditional 2nd that only becomes great if they win the cup. Oh, but that’s not all: If they win the cup, that means our 2026 1st is the very last pick of the draft. Gee, thanks so much Vegas.
Not much to like about this, at all. Again, happy about the 2027 1st, but the rest of this trade gives it a solid D+, borderline C-. I rate it worse than the Hanifin deal.
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