Your scenario in which Blackwood is traded at the deadline is impossible. It would be a monumental mistake for the Avalanche management to part ways with their #1 goaltender while having only a backup goalie and/or a prospect to replace him. MacFarland would be fired on the spot.

Nuke gets traded to canes for Svechnikov

Then avs sign granlund as 2nd line center

If Nabokov shines in the AHL and Wedgewood continues to look as good as he did this year, I predict we trade Blackwood at the deadline to clear cap space and get defensemen for a cup run (assuming 2C is sorted out).

I agree with the comment here about Skinner not being elite and still the team makes the cup finals.

In DeBour’s final presser he said he did not think this Dallas team was necessarily the best of the three (“maybe on paper,” he said). But then he said Edmonton is a much better team this year than last and pointed to their six experienced, veteran defensemen.

Chicago was the same. Rode Niemi to the Cup and traded him to the Sharks (who i rooted for when i lived there.) He proved very average. It was the D he had in front of him led by Keith, Seabrook and Hjalmarsson plus a strong (obv) forward group that produced those cups.

Done. Sorry, some of those spammer accounts are out of control

Aarif – – can you please remove this crap from CHN?

Let’s imagine a world where this trade were to happen. You know the Avs would face the Stars in the postseason next year.

Blackwood will be lights out with a .930 & 2 shutouts. Oetteinger will stink (like he just did against Edm). And the Avs will lose in 5 lol. It’s the way it goes when this management group makes a big trade of late. Every move they’ve made in the last 3 years has blown up in their face.

Cale had to have been dealing with something. Dallas did block a ton of shot and do a good job of being in lanes but cale just flat missed a bunch. Its not like him at all to have so many off games in a row. Cale has the mamba type metality

No prospects? Ivan Ivan, for example, scored at the same rate as Logan O’Connor. He’s not a top six prospect, but he can play 3rd or 4th line. So literally we have prospects, just not elite ones.

To me that’s best case scenario. Nabokov is the real deal. Comes over adapts & excels immediately. Like a lot of other KHL/Russian goalies (Bob, Igor, Vasy, etc). Which makes Blackwood & the remainder of his deal not only expendable. But if he himself continues his upward career trajectory, a tradable asset.