Oh so all the reasons Columbus would rather have him than Armia? Because he's better? Because the potential is there? Because he'll probably score more than 6 goals if he plays more than 18 games?

You guys don't even make sense anymore. You just say **** to say **** and hope one of the thoughts makes sense.

Hes stunk in Columbus so bad, and now has joined the player assistance program, Hes not gonna magically come back and perform in Columbus. He needs a change of scenery but not many teams have the infrastructure and cap space to actually make Laine work

Armia is essentially a money move. Some cap needs to come back because no one is taking Laine full cap. Jackets could easily retain 50% on Armia and get a 2nd rounder. And retaining 1.75m for a few months (TDL move) is a lot easier than retaining 4.35m for 2 years

Like I said

Nowhere near enough to dump $16.5 mil of dead cap. You're looking at about a first for every $5.0 mil from past comparable cap dumps.

The "reasoning" of some Montreal fans. Laine has no value, but somehow Anderson is a positive asset. How out of touch with reality can you get?

It would have been faster to just say you don't watch Columbus games and also have no idea what you're talking about.



And this is just straight up ignorant disingenuous bulls***. He's so bad you've got him playing above Ehlers and Caulfield?

Look, if you want to make a real offer for a player who's rounded out his game a ton since coming to Columbus, while (when healthy) scoring at a rate better than all but one of his WPG seasons (and it's not the 40-goal season), we can talk. But I don't think that's your intent here. Go waste another team's time.

Matheson shouldn’t be worth 13th overall to anyone. Would Montreal trade 5th overall for Brodin? If the answer is no, you should be able to see Minnesota’s POV. If the answer is yes, please have your GM send in the request.

...you're talking past me now, too, I was trying to take your side.

I said he's probably worth moving up 13 spots, with the assumption it's a late pick + Matheson for a mid-rounder; I didn't say he's worth 13OA, although I don't think he's that far off. I also realize that it's not at all a fit for MIN, a team that is probably better off making the pick and letting the younger core develop another year. Let an older playoff team looking for a top-pair LD spend the mid-rounder on him.

That’s not what you said at all.

Edit: unless you mean 32 to 19? That at least makes some sense since 19 is a playoff team.

Ultimately I think the main takeaways here are, in order:
1) Matheson isn't a fit for the Wild's 1st round pick
2) Matheson isn't worth a pick as high as 13 to any team

Yeah, I meant in the 25-32 range, which would be anywhere from 12-19 range. But this would be entirely theoretical, since obviously there's only one Matheson and he's on MTL. But I could see a Matheson-type player be enough to move up from 28 to 15 for example, for a team like a Pittsburgh or Detroit that barely missed the playoffs.

But yeah, I should have specified a little more.