Major trade - Chicago-Buffalo

[jlapo11]

trades

LW/RW Thomas Vanek, $5.5m (2017-2018)
RW Zack Kassian, $0.9m (2015-2016)
RW Stefan Noesen, $m (P-n/a)

For

LW Nick Foligno, $3.1m (2014-2015)
LW Bryan Bickell, $3.5m (2015-2016)
D Joshua Morrissey, $m (P-n/a)
RW Rickard Rakell, $m (P-n/a)
RW Brett Ritchie, $0.2m (P-n/a)
2nd Round 2015.

Like my real NHL team is in a rebuild mode. With this move and the previous one (Ekblad) is rebuilding its minor roster in order to be a contendant in a few years

For that I have to give up one of my best FPTs producer but in exchange I receive 2 very good  RW prospects ( Rackell and Ritchie ) who should be in the NHL maybe next year, a top D-man prospect (Morrissey), another draft pick to increase my bank of 2015 picks or to be use as potential  picks to exchange, a good player (Foligno) and a super star (Bickell) who will not have a long live with .

I am giving up Vanek (my main lost),  Noesen (who still have to prove that he is NHL caliber) and an average player (Kassian).

All these moves are part of a long term strategy to be completed later by other moves (Buy-out/Waiver/FA) to clean-up my roster.

It tooks us several PMs to arrive to this deal which satisfies both teams.

Thanks Anthony. Pls confirms

[Anthony]

Took quite a while and a lot of messages, but I am glad to get it done. After a lot of selling my roster for prospects to make cap space, I instantly ship them off for guys that can win. I like Foligno, but he is probably capped out in terms of production. Bickell is a cap dump, the production is not there for the money. Vanek is a stud who can only get better with stability in Minnesota, and playing alongside Parise, Pominville, Koivu, etc. Kassian has potential and he keeps getting better, and Noesen is to keep my minors somewhat in tact.

[norrya66]

 

I like Buffalo's side a little more, but there is still some risk with some of those specs, so the deal is pretty even right now, but Buffalo could win in the long run. 

[izaman3]

 

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[Rob]

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[Rob]