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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
To New York:
C Kevin Hayes
To Philly:
G Matt Murray
D Nick Robertson
2022 2nd
All in all, today's trades were a roundabout way of getting me the #1 centre I've been looking for all offseason. It's been forever since I made a deal with Philly... glad to pull it off. I'm a huge fan of Hayes and have been asking for him forever.
Here's the lineup now:
Zach Parise - Kevin Hayes - Kevin Labanc
Lars Eller - Eric Staal - James Neal
P-E Bellemare - Adam Gaudette - Drake Caggiula
Matt Martin - Jujhar Khaira - Josh Archibald
Ryan McDonagh - Tyson Barrie
Marcus Pettersson - Brent Seabrook
Matt Benning - Justin Schultz
Pavel Francouz
Mike Hutchinson
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#TSNGMANALYST
Overall this is a good trade for the NYI and the moves for Staal and Hayes has made their center depth is much better than it was a week ago, but it remains to be seen how the NYI will make this roster work.
A week ago the NYI had finally found themselves under the cap with near a full roster, but now with the moves to acquire Staal and Hayes they find themselves over the cap with only 17 players on the roster. They have Francouz and Schultz currently listed on their roster here but need to get $6.75M under the cap to be able to sign those players.
In the end this move might end up being 1 step forward, 2 steps back for the NYI who have had a tough offseason so far this year.