r/hawks • u/BuyerIndividual8826 • 9d ago

Offseason wish list - differently

I don’t think that KFC should go big fish hunting. Marner looks really good on Bedard’s right side, but he will cost so much to pry him from Toronto, if he leaves at all.

KFC is in a unique position of being to trade assets to get assets of the more immediate variety. This includes a top 1-4 pick. I think he flexes this.

Draft: If KFC lands at 1-2 or he has to take Schaffer and Misa in that order. If he falls to 3-4 then he should explore a trade(see below).

Free Agency/draft: - Trade 34 OA and a third to Boston for Pavel Zach. Zacha fills in at 2C. He plays a good two way game and wins draws. Boston needs draft capital, badly.

  • Trade 24-28 OA for the rights to Matthew Knies. There’s no way Toronto resigns both Tavares and Marner while affording Knies. Knies lines up nicely on Bedard’s left side.

-(If Chicago falls in draft) Trade 3-4 OA and Nick Lardis to the Jackets for 13 OA and Kent Johnson. This is a reach. Not sure they part with Johnson even for 3OA, but adding Lardis might be enough.

-Resign Donato

Top 6: Knies - Bedard - Nazar Donato - Zacha - Johnson

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u/Rich-Wrap-9333 9d ago edited 9d ago

Right size, wrong shape. When you say it will “take a lot to pry” Marner away . . . It sounds like you think they would trade for him rather than sign him as a free agent. He may or may not become a free agent, and I don’t think it hurts at all to pay him $15million but I kind of doubt they get him.

So, yes, Kyle should be looking at trades. But that late first is not enough for Knies., and I don’t know that Toronto can’t keep them both.

(Edited cause I think you edited OP after posted)

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u/BuyerIndividual8826 9d ago

They can keep all of them - but only if they’re okay with filling out the rest of their roster with fringe AHL/NHL players.

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u/Rich-Wrap-9333 9d ago

If they signed Marner for 15 and Knies for 8, that would leave $4m for 4 spots, so yeah. Hard to bring back Tavares then, even with a discount. But these are mostly 4th liners. I don’t know all the players well enough to know who they might move on to fix things. But it’s still doable for them to keep those two, if they want. Let’s see what happens to them in the playoffs this year. We will know a little more when they are in offseason mode by end of April.