Just throwing this random question now. Obviously, we have around 8 weeks to see how this unfolds. Looking at the reports of two distinguished sources:
Sportsnet: [https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/sportsnet-insiders-25-nhl-trade-candidates-to-watch/](https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/sportsnet-insiders-25-nhl-trade-candidates-to-watch/)
TSN: [https://www.tsn.ca/canadian-nhl-teams-headline-tsn-s-trade-nhl-deadline-trade-bait-board-1.2060578](https://www.tsn.ca/canadian-nhl-teams-headline-tsn-s-trade-nhl-deadline-trade-bait-board-1.2060578)
If we we’re to rank them by order, the top names that are on the trade block are:
1. Sean Monahan
2. David Savard
3. Jake Allen
4. Mike Matheson
by IcyChard4
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I think for the sake of the surprising return you can get for him… Jake Evans. I am relatively confident I would take the return for him with the intent to have Beck step into the lineup next year and while it is a downgrade right now for the team we have other centres coming back from injury next year and only RHP and Heineman are waiver exempt (I dont think we are sending slaf down to the AHL). Also you can retain 750k of his salary and really make a couple of teams depth very hard to match.
Monahan is every contender’s dream. Faceoff specialist, 50 point pace, defensively responsible, extremely cheap contract, rental. I’m sure KH will have his pick of deals.
I think we are holding onto Allen until someone hits our asking price. With the number of goalie issues league wide, all we need is for one GM to bite.
And imo if we are trading defensemen, we should only trade one vet. Between Matheson and Savard, not sure who would get the bigger return. I also assume that a young defenseman is gonna get moved at some point for some offense.
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Savard Monahan Allen will get traded. Maybe Kovacevic.
Matheson stays
Anderson, Armia, Dvorak, Pearson are pretty much untradable
Monahan Matheson
Monahan is the easy answer but I think his gentleman’s agreement with Hughes might end up playing into the buyer’s favour unless Hughes can really whip up competition amongst those teams.
Pearson could be the best ROI. He’s the kind of player contenders stock up on and he didn’t really cost us anything to acquire.
Allen should get a decent return as there’s a lot od demand for goaltenders right now.
I’d hate to see it happen but I wouldn’t be surprised to see Anderson move if he keeps up his recent play. Of any player mentioned here, he would net us the best return IMO. Hughes has been offered 1st round picks for him and turned them down in the past. I don’t know that he’d do it again.
I suspect the likely returns to be:
1. Similar to Stastny in 2018 (1st, 4th, small contract to make salary contract count work)
2. Probably only a 2nd. Market conditions could bump this to a 1st if we add a depth piece (13th or 14th forward for the playoffs).
3. Value is a likely a 4th. If we can take salary back, we might get another 4th or turn this pick into a 3rd. I doubt we retain since we only have one slot left and the return for retaining would offer more value on one of the options with 2 years on their contract.
4. Similar though a little less than Chychrun, who had more team control (I think he had 4 years left). Chychrun returned a 1st and 2-2nds. Matheson and some cap gymnastics likely gets a 1st, 2nd, 5th.
One challenge we will have in brokering deals is that we have 1 salary retention slot left. We can’t retain n everyone we trade, so we’ll have to take salary back. Not all teams will have players on their roster they will want to dump whose salary lines up with the player we are trading. If we have to take on extra salary (e.g. 5 million back to trade 3.5) that is worth significant value and teams may not want to pay all their trade capital when another team has an equivalent player without having to pay for the cap gymnastics.
Monahan is still very usefull for the team since 2 center are still injured, if he leave Susuki will be even more overworked. Dont let him go for cheap ( at least a 1st round pick )
Savard would hurt be we can still manage. Best case would be a 2nd and a 3rd
Allen would be lucky to get anything, 4 win in 14 game at 4M
Matheson wont move unless we get a massive overpaiment (First + established player)
I’d honestly put Allen over Savard.
Normally teams want defensively sound defencemen during the deadline but this year multiple contenders have really inconsistent goalie tandems. A Jake Allen could complete quite a few playoff teams and because goalies like him are in short supply, teams will overpay.
Monahan + Pearson + Allen and that’s it for me.
Savard if he stays healthy. Big, minute eating, cup winning veteran RDs who can play on the second pair tend to be sought after
Lots of the contenders this year have RD problems so I imagine he’ll fetch the best return. Even more if Hughes retains since you’d get a 2nd pair RD for two runs at 1.75M
The *best* trade chip is Suzuki; the most-likely is Monahan.
Savard. He’s having an excellent year this year. Hes physical and can block shots.
I know I can be frustrated with his speed, but he’s just been clicking this season. A contender could def overpay for him like Chiarot
Monahan
Savard
Allen
Pearson
Monahan is the gift that keeps on giving…
IMO i’m keeping Matheson! Savard is replaceable within the organization. Whatever happens I have faith in KH to make the right moves.
Matheson