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Garak

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Forum: Armchair-GM11 hours ago
Thread: Jones
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Affectionate_Side_64</b></div><div>This offer gives you all the reason you need to trade him. Now you have an additional top 10 pick to grab a future top pair D, as well as the cap to add the two defensemen you're after on top of that. Plus robertson, plus liljegren...

Jones accepted a trade to Chicago because he wanted to compete for a cup in his prime. I have no doubts he'd be a cmgood soldier in the media, but no professional athlete in his position would be pleased by it.

This is where you're wrong, I'm thinking about exactly what would benefit the hawks with where they're at as a team, which should be all about maximizing your cap and assets to align with their cup window. That window is years away, and that is the point.</div></div>

The top 10 pick definitely makes it a whole lot more interesting. I'll give you that.
Forum: Armchair-GM17 hours ago
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Thread: Hawks
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>tugspiedman</b></div><div>I agree with the continued focus on acquiring high end draft capitals by utilizing our cap. Those particular trades may not be the most realistic ones though -- unlikely Johnny T waives his NMC for Chicago and I don't think Detroit is willing to part ways with all those picks to move those guys.

I imagine other GMs will offer more than what we are / should be willing to for Saros &amp; Ehlers. I generally don't see the hawks making a trade for a star player this offseason, unless it's for an overpaid one where we are compensated or don't give up valuable future pieces to make it happen.

On the RFA front, I'd like to give Crevier and Guttman one more year to see what they've got, esp Crevier given our lack of RDs in the system. I also think Anderson deserves to come back as a depth forward</div></div>

Ditto on all of this, especially the Anderson part. Love that guy. If people are going to offer dirt for him, we should absolutely just keep him. We don't need more mid to late round picks and he isn't worth a 1st, at this point. But he showed a lot of promise in his role this past season and I honestly feel like he could be a solid long term bottom 6 forward for CHI.