Speculation: 2013-14 Hurricanes Trade Talk Part 3

[bleedgreen]

Tell that to the Blackhawks and Penguins.

Edm says hello.

You need depth and quality around those guys, the picks aren't enough.

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

I really wish Conacher would've fallen to us. Oh well

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Found this funny:

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/nhl-grab-bag-trade-deadline-edition/

This Week’s Debate: You are an NHL general manager, and it’s trade deadline week. Should you make a major trade?

In Favor: Yes, please. Trades are awesome, and fans love them. The bigger the better. Get dealing.

Opposed: Uh, I think I’ll pass.

In Favor: Why? It’s deadline week! Get on the phone and make something happen!

Opposed: But trades are hard.

In Favor: Yes, we realize that. We don’t care, though. We’ve got 20 hours of deadline day TV to fill, so make some deals.

Opposed: But the salary cap …

In Favor: Stop.

Opposed: But parity …

In Favor: We don’t care.

Opposed: [Stamping feet.] But it’s haaaarrrddd …

In Favor: Yes, we know it’s hard. Making trades in today’s NHL is difficult. We all get that. But it’s also a major component of your job. You know, the one you get paid millions of dollars to do. So figure it out, you cowering baby.

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[tomdundo]

Found this funny:

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/nhl-grab-bag-trade-deadline-edition/

 

[Finlandia WOAT]

Tell that to the Blackhawks and Penguins.

It was much more than just getting top picks.

First, it was sucking at the right time. Pittsburgh was terrible and got Crosby and Malkin-arguably the two best centers in the game right now. Chicago got terrible and got Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews; two-thirds of one of the best lines in hockey.

Second, they both added tremendous amount of depth through one way or the other. The Blackhawks are surprising, since they blew pretty much every first rounder they had other than Toews and Kane from 2002-2009. Ruutu? Barker? Beach? Babchuk? Skille? LOL. Seabrooke is good though, obviously. But the Blackhawks added a tremendous amount of depth through the later rounds of the draft. Keith. Wisniewski. Troy Brouwer. Byfuglien. Hjalmersson. Bolland. Andrew Shaw. Bollig. Saad. Crawford. Niemi. Marcus Kruger. Three top-4 defensemen, two decent goaltenders and a **** ton of offensive depth through the draft or undrafted FA signings. Meanwhile, Carolina is riding the coattails of Brett freaking Bellemore, Drayson Bowman and Justin Peters as the only two players that have done anything noteworthy on our current roster that was not drafted in a later round.

The Pens did the same, but through trades and free agency mostly.

The Oilers have drafted an undersized center and two wingers with their first overalls. They picked a bad time to suck (hopefully they can continue the suckage and get someone decent like McDavid or Eichel). They don't use FA or trades to help shore up the holes in their system, and so far, their drafting outside the first round has not been good enough to compensate (to be fair though, it would have to be really ****ing good to compensate. What the Blackhawks have done and continue to do is extremely rare).