Target Dylan Strome

[Albatrosss]

no thanks.  enough Stromes for one team.  JT Miller is also a pipe dream right now IMO.  Vancouver just changed coaches so they're most likely looking to compete and not blow the team up.  so unless they completely shit the bed i doubt they'll be moving their primary pieces.  

The more i think about Giroux, the more i like it.  Not sure how feasible it is to get him for decent return

[Phil]

For Chytil. The trade is one-for-one.

[josh]

39 minutes ago, Phil said:

For Chytil. The trade is one-for-one.

They'd probably take Hajek + 3rd 

 

[Phil]

23 minutes ago, josh said:

They'd probably take Hajek + 3rd 

 

Chytil should go in the deal to make a natural opening. Unless he goes to RW, and I'm not remotely convinced he's any better there.

[josh]

Strome has been a healthy scratch on a very bad team. He’s a RFA they don’t intend to re-sign. He’s going to be incredibly cheap to acquire via trade.  

[Keirik]

1 hour ago, Phil said:

For Chytil. The trade is one-for-one.

I’d be all for that. Chytil is a better trade than Hajek just to reset on the position. Maybe you get a brother discount.who knows. Unlikely but ffs, chytil gives absolutely nothing here. Probably more of Chytil + futures though. 

[Ozzy]

I've seen enough Chytil.  It's time.

[Phil]

8 hours ago, Keirik said:

I’d be all for that. Chytil is a better trade than Hajek just to reset on the position. Maybe you get a brother discount.who knows. Unlikely but ffs, chytil gives absolutely nothing here. Probably more of Chytil + futures though. 

Strome, to me, is a better fit for Lafreniere, anyway. He's one-dimensional, but that dimension is playmaking — something Chytil doesn't do well at all. Chytil is more of a goal-scoring center. Hawks can't score at all, so it might be relatively easy to sell them on his upside.

I also think you can kick the can down the road on Strome's extension. He's a pending RFA, but he hasn't done nearly enough to warrant a sizable raise. I feel like you can get him signed to a one-year extension at a moderate price, probably right around what he's making right now. His current cap hit is $3 million, but his total salary this year is $3.6 million, so maybe exactly that?

[Pete]

19 minutes ago, Phil said:

Strome, to me, is a better fit for Lafreniere, anyway. He's one-dimensional, but that dimension is playmaking — something Chytil doesn't do well at all. Chytil is more of a goal-scoring center. Hawks can't score at all, so it might be relatively easy to sell them on his upside.

I also think you can kick the can down the road on Strome's extension. He's a pending RFA, but he hasn't done nearly enough to warrant a sizable raise. I feel like you can get him signed to a one-year extension at a moderate price, probably right around what he's making right now. His current cap hit is $3 million, but his total salary this year is $3.6 million, so maybe exactly that?

Nemeth and Geo have to go, you need some league minimum salaries in there next year to do what we need to do.

Edited December 15, 2021 by Pete

[Phil]

2 minutes ago, Pete said:

Nemeth and Geo have to go, you need some league minimum salaries in there next year to do what we need to do.

I think that's true regardless of whether this deal gets done or not. I think you can replace both of them with replacement level, say $1 million players, and you actually save $1 – $1.5M per on each of them.

On Strome, I'm just guessing on salary, too. Fact is, he's doing very poorly on a bad team, so it may even be plausible that he doesn't sign his QO at all and just signs a one-year deal worth less than what he makes now. A prove it deal.

[Pete]

17 minutes ago, Phil said:

I think that's true regardless of whether this deal gets done or not.

That's what I'm sayin' dawg.