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The Motherfucking 2021 Season Thread

Hall on the topline with Hyman leading the dominant 3rd line?

Or Hall on the 3rd line in the Kessel role?

I'm good either way.
 
Assuming that we do the 3 way trade cap fuckery maneuver and don't have to move a body (Kerfoot) out to bring Hall in, I would try this first:

Hall-Matthews-Marner
Kerfoot-Tavares-Nylander
Mikky-Engvall-Hyman
 
Think the only way we get Hall is if he tells management we are the only team he’ll go to and drives the price down to trade. Don’t see us matching other teams in terms of futures to make it work.
 
soco22 said:
Think the only way we get Hall is if he tells management we are the only team he’ll go to and drives the price down to trade. Don’t see us matching other teams in terms of futures to make it work.
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We match 1st rounder + B prospect at least.
 
Have a feeling someone will overpay to get him. Dunno, just a feeling - from a gut without stats like zeke has.

Hope we don’t give up a 1st for him tho, rather use it to get Eichel ;)
 
Halls NMC will come into play. Suspect his list of teams is limited so the return will be down to a small number of teams.

If I was to guess I suspect the Leafs and Avs are his top choices
 
Thing is, I don't think Hall is the guy that other teams are going to go hard at for a playoff run. He's just not "that guy" by reputation. If he was in the middle of a typical Taylor Hall season, maybe a couple of front offices looking for a pure offence boost takes a run at him with the typical deadline offer for that level of play (1st + good but not great prospect), but there's a solid handful of middle 6 wingers having decent seasons likely available:

Foligno, Bobby Ryan, Pavelski, Palmieri, Rakell, Getzlaf, Iafallo, Brown, Dzingel, Janmark


I'm leaning towards agreeing with some of the reports that we've heard suggesting that Hall might struggle to get a 1st round pick in return. 2 goals in 36 games, .5ppg. Going to cost less than a 1st to get someone having a better season from somewhere else.
 
MindzEye said:
Assuming that we do the 3 way trade cap fuckery maneuver and don't have to move a body (Kerfoot) out to bring Hall in, I would try this first:

Hall-Matthews-Marner
Kerfoot-Tavares-Nylander
Mikky-Engvall-Hyman
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If there’s double retention on him, don’t we have the space to keep Kerfoot? Because doing so would give us unbelievable depth.
 
I'll be really surprised if Buffalo gets any kind of impressive package for Hall.

Everything's kind of working against that---Hall's in the middle of the worst statistical season of his career by far, he doesn't have any of the leaderbean/playoff experience type qualities that NHL GM's crave, he'll have a high cap hit even if Buffalo retains 50%, and Hall's NMC likely means there isn't going to be an open bidding war for his services. Not to mention we're in a bizarre pandemic season where people are getting moved in-season even less than usual.

Buffalo will probably play chicken with any interested teams for as long as possible leading up to the deadline, and then they'll finally give in and trade him for the equivalent of a 2nd round pick & a "B" prospect.
 
LeafGm said:
I'll be really surprised if Buffalo gets any kind of impressive package for Hall.

Everything's kind of working against that---Hall's in the middle of the worst statistical season of his career by far, he doesn't have any of the leaderbean/playoff experience type qualities that NHL GM's crave, he'll have a high cap hit even if Buffalo retains 50%, and Hall's NMC likely means there isn't going to be an open bidding war for his services. Not to mention we're in a bizarre pandemic season where people are getting moved in-season even less than usual.

Buffalo will probably play chicken with any interested teams for as long as possible leading up to the deadline, and then they'll finally give in and trade him for the equivalent of a 2nd round pick & a "B" prospect.
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The only thing that can foil it, and I’d do this if I was Buffalo, is to tell him if he doesn’t waive to go to the team with the best offer, I won’t trade him at all and he can enjoy watching the playoffs on tv.
 
As I understand it, if you're under the cap slightly on any given day (we shuffle guys to the AHL and back constantly to make sure we are, thank you Pridham), you bank that space, and can use it at the deadline.

If you have anyone on LTIR, you can exceed the cap by that amount while the player is out, but you don't have the ability to bank any space for the deadline.
 
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