With the big news being Artemi Panarin will go to the post season to evaluate his options, Jarmo Kekalainen must make some hard decisions. We discussed in the last post some of the consequences of that decision, and the notion that 'losing Panarin for nothing' is a relative term. As we saw with the Gaborik trade, that can happen at the trade deadline as well as on July 1. Since a trade deadline deal will almost certainly involve futures rather than a player, you have to ask yourself what type of futures deal is worth making the move? To me, the easy criteria for evaluating the move is: Does it make the Monsters great?
Making the Monsters Great Again; The Acceptable Futures Trade for Panarin
