Judd Zulgad

If Bill Guerin is surprised, if he did offer Strammel a first-round pick and then, let's say, spot check, your check, something like that,

If he's surprised that the Rangers said no, he shouldn't be.

Because when you look at this, and you know, it's funny, about a day and a half ago, Pierre Lebrun, who's been doing this forever, an insider at The Athletic now, he's been a bunch of places.

I think he's at TSN as well in Canada.

Pierre Lebrun reported that it was going to be, or it was shaping up as a buyer's market.

which i thought it's never a buyer's market and then today lebrun came back and said it's a seller's market to which i thought it's always a seller's market like i know that there might be teams trying to dump guys off but this is the time of year where you ask for the absolute moon and then if you got to circle back and trade a guy in june but like teams have nothing to lose right now unless it's a third or fourth line guy

If you have a star player or a really good, effective player, teams have nothing to lose unless it's a guy who's going to be to hit free agency July 1st.

They have nothing to lose by trying to wait.

So, and you know, if it's a guy who's going to be unrestricted, yeah, that's different.

But Trocek, again, has three years left.

But let's go through what you just talked about, which is the trades that have been made so far.

And I went through all of the trades involving centers thus far.

starting with the wild on tuesday night getting michael mccarron from the preds for a 2028 second round pick fourth line guy and we're all like that's a high price and billy's like f them picks but we're still like well that's a high price sticker shock right yep well let's go through this

Last night, the Blackhawks acquire a conditional 2027 first from the Oilers, along with the much shopped and finally traded Andrew Mangiapane for, as you talked about, Jason Dickinson, who's 30, and Colton Dock, who's 23, and I think more of a throw-in now.

Dickinson, though, is going to almost certainly now center the Oilers.

fourth line you'll see a trend here okay um today this morning the golden knights as you said acquire nick dowd from the capitals for a goaltender he must be in the american league i would guess jesper vickman a 2027 third round pick and a 2029 second round pick for nick dowd

who guess what is probably going to center the fourth line because their top, the top three in Vegas right now are Eichel, Marner and hurdle.

And I don't think Nick Dowd replaces them.

And then after that,

The Avs get Nick Waugh from the Leafs for a 2027 top 10 protected because the Avs are very concerned that they're going to finish in last place next season.