Even then it doesn't really work though. It just creates another hole.
Right now it's:
Zadorov-EJ Duchene Trade-Barrie Barberio-Lindholm Mironov, Bigras, Beauchemin's corpse as extras.
If they trade Zadorov (or god forbid he leaves), it's:
???-EJ Duchene Trade-Barrie Barberio-Lindholm
with one of the extras filling that spot. It would probably be Barberio, then leaving a spot for Beauchemin. Or worse, Beauchemin on the first pairing. Mironov and Bigras are unproven. IMO the defense will be in the same spot as last year if they do that, which defeats the purpose of the Duchene trade.
Drouin and Nate also weren't good together at the World Cup. Drouin in general wasn't very good, but Nate had way better chemistry with RNH. I don't think it would be worth it to try and get him.
Especially because he's probably going to ask for a ton of money and the Avs don't really like giving that much money to young players. One of the insiders said that Drouin thinks he deserves as much as players like Nate and Monahan but he hasn't been in the league as long and hasn't proven as much as they did when they got their contracts. So I think the Avs would be adverse to that risk. He's already held out once...
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Even then it doesn't really work though. It just creates another hole.
Right now it's:
Zadorov-EJ
Duchene Trade-Barrie
Barberio-Lindholm
Mironov, Bigras, Beauchemin's corpse as extras.
If they trade Zadorov (or god forbid he leaves), it's:
???-EJ
Duchene Trade-Barrie
Barberio-Lindholm
with one of the extras filling that spot. It would probably be Barberio, then leaving a spot for Beauchemin. Or worse, Beauchemin on the first pairing. Mironov and Bigras are unproven. IMO the defense will be in the same spot as last year if they do that, which defeats the purpose of the Duchene trade.
Drouin and Nate also weren't good together at the World Cup. Drouin in general wasn't very good, but Nate had way better chemistry with RNH. I don't think it would be worth it to try and get him.
Especially because he's probably going to ask for a ton of money and the Avs don't really like giving that much money to young players. One of the insiders said that Drouin thinks he deserves as much as players like Nate and Monahan but he hasn't been in the league as long and hasn't proven as much as they did when they got their contracts. So I think the Avs would be adverse to that risk. He's already held out once...