AROUND THE LEAGUE - 26-27

[Tciso]

Read a bunch of stuff about teams cool on DeBrusk due to term of deal combined with streaky game.

Decent term and dollar investment on a guy you never know when you can count on.....

You just need one team hot on him….

Indeed.

...and I think eventually he gets dealt.

Only one hot team minimizes return potential unfortunately.

Especially so with green team leaders in place.

This might end up a limited get back just to ship his body out of here.

Although accruing his 5.5 back into our cap space will be nice.

We don't need to trade him this year. His NMC switches to a 15 team list next year, so don't panic.

And, yes. He is streaky, but he is worth way more than just a 2nd.

[BoS]

There’s the rub. He may have a short list of teams he’d accept a trade to, yet the ones interested in are not on his list.

So do you dump him now and take what you can get, or sit on him for a year and hope he his value doesn’t drop.

I guess it depends on how much RJ wants to remove him.

[donlever]

What he is worth is irrelevant which is why I brought all this up.

What we can get is.

...and if interest is muted that may minimize return.

Which is what I have been seeing out there (for what it's worth) and why I posted about it here.

We do not need to trade him this year or ever if we don't want to.

Unless he starts squawking behind closed doors.

[BoS]

Unless he starts squawking behind closed doors.

And if that’s the case, he’ll be gone before September.

[UWSaint]

There’s the rub. He may have a short list of teams he’d accept a trade to, yet the ones interested in are not on his list.

So do you dump him now and take what you can get, or sit on him for a year and hope he his value doesn’t drop.

I guess it depends on how much RJ wants to remove him.

If we are talking about DeBrusk here, I don’t subscribe to take what you can get now. I don’t see his value changing much in the next season — especially if the contract length is one of the issues. Whatever year older he gets is offset by a shorter commitment and a lower cap %. But more importantly, DeBrusk’s NTC turns into a modified clause next year — I think either a 15 team no trade or a 15 team can trade.

To be sure, listen to offers now, listen at the deadline, but the market knows his not part of the team’s future and trades stop involving a third party (DeBrusk himself) once that trade protection is no longer absolute.

[Hockey Widow]

I think RJ has said he will not hold a fire sale and trade players for the sake of trading them. Yes he wants to make more moves and will explore them but he is not into dumping salary or chasing out a body for the sake of it. If he gets a return that he thinks will help this cub achieve their short term or their long term objectives then he will make a move.

Gallagher meets the short term objectives as does Schenn and Oleksiak. Trading M Pettersson and the return meets the long term objective. So I think he would go either way in any trade as long as the return is in meeting with their mission statement. But I cannot seem being rushed into anything, unless there are problems with that player.