Carolina would become the cup favorite… full stop

not even close. u want us to eat cap and take on a player we have to play 7-8m for and who is a much much much much worse player and a few picks? maybe add jarvis to that and Koch and its closer to a at worst top4 player in the NHL

Why would you guys need Koch… you already have Skinner. I agree it needs more but I think it would be more futures and not current roster assets

Could prolly ad Drury and Nadeau but that's it

would give us a dirt cheap tandem so we dont burn skinner in the regular season and we could ride the hot hand + have an asset wen one wants big money. would 1000000% be current roster players were not gonna move drai to rebuild for 2030 were trying to win now with McDavid so if u want a top4 player u need to give us players who help us now and in the future

Gonna take a lot more to get Draisaitl.

That's a fair point about the rebuild... I just don't think the Hurricanes are gonna want to give up two top-6 pieces... I think that they would be more comfortable giving up a top-6 piece + defensemen (With one exception) + boatload of picks to make sure that we aren't drained too much at one position

only 2 Dman that would have any value to us would be slavin who wouldnt be worth as much to us as u bc we have nurse long term, broberg and Ekholm on the left. morrow is the only guy that we would give a ton of value to, walker is good but dont see being a huge main guy in the trade, would have to be necas + 2 1sts + durry as the base that gets us on the phone. drai wouldnt really go anywhere without an extension and that ads value to an already massive haul that it would require. i dont see many teams having the assets to get him and its more likely that we pay the assets to dump nurse (esp if he has a bounce back year) and pay drai whatever he wants considering hyman RNH (and expecting) Broberg and holloway to be much cheaper then there market rate. kane shouldnt be hard to move + cap increase skinner is cheap next year and a few depth guys that are super cheap + a few young guys coming up i doubt we dont just keep him unless a team really really wants to pay for him

I'm fine with Necas+2 1sts+ Drury as a base

if drai doesnt seem interested in resigning with us then im guessing it would take something like a depth fwd or someone like ceci attached but if he wants to it would take a bit more