psychemedisabrefan wrote:
Parise is a RFA this year and if Jersey does sign Kovie i highly doubt they will be able to resign him. I would in a heartbeat give up a first for zajac or parise. Zajac gives you that #1 or #2 centerman we need. Parise that increased scoring threat with no defensive liability. Then as has been said move connolly at the deadline. see if you can land a second.
Like it has been said you are giving up an unproven player (likely a 20th overall pick) for a guy who has proven himself an NHL player, is reasonably signed and still young. As well the Sabres haven't exactly been lucky with first rounders. i mean perrson, kalinin, zagrapan stand out as big failures.
But my guess is they are going to try to move Rolston with his 5,062,500 cap hit.
Langenbrunner is also a free agent at the end of this season.
With Arnott, Langenbrunner, and Hedberg counting over $8.5M against the cap going away next summer, NJ shouldn't struggle to ink Parise to a nice long extension that is in the $5 to 6M per year range.
if they sign kovie however that will be a big drain of their cap space. i'm not saying parise wouldn't be re-signed. just saying if they sign kovie even with all that cap coming off they will still likely have trouble. I did place my post as an if kovie is signed. if not they easily resign parise and do not consider trading zajac.
That will only add $2 to 3M per year to his cap hit.
They can dump a guy like Zubrus next summer, if need be.