Always enjoy AJ’s take. Keep up the good work!

Great article AJ! Worth every penny for stuff like this.

Would hate to see Drury go but look what teams were willing to pay for Laughton or Dowd. Might get a pretty solid offer on him.
In looking at left side D help, even the trade market doesn’t look great. Depending on what teams are looking to do this off season, maybe the Panthers unload Mikkola to make cap room for Larkin? The Leafs eat some money on Morgan Reilly or let loose McCabe? Maybe Verbeek is willing to deal away Mintyukov instead of Zellweger (who looks like an undisciplined version of Sammy G to me) and would have some interest in a defensive winger like Val in return.

The ideal would be someone like Wotherspoon, Robertson, Lohrei, but I can’t see them being available.

Do not let him leave…elite 4C with 3C upside as injury insurance 26 years old and will continue to get better. I’d rather see them trade Kadri and play Roy at 3C than lose the best young player they have. This organization is unnecessarily killing the immediate future after this core ages out. Letting Drury go is straight up malpractice IMO.

We need to keep this guy. It’s a lot of money now, but what about in 2-3 years when that cap keeps going up? I think we found a diamond, lets keep him in Denver.

Center depth, keep him. Thanks AJ!