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The Yzerman only comes when all good boys and girls are asleep in their beds
Oh man the effort put into this I appreciate that you even photoshopped a lightning helmet on his head.
The Yzerman only comes when all good boys and girls are asleep in their beds
Say we trade Raddysh, Foote, Howden. We have more prospects.. And we don't have an anchor in Toews making 10.5 million and a Kane making 10.5. Stamkos and Hedman make what? 15 together? We can't keep every prospect because won't have the room for them in the lineup.. We've already experienced this with Koekkoek for example, many of us agree he hasn't got a fair shot.
I didn't. That's the Ottawa 'O' on top.Oh man the effort put into this I appreciate that you even photoshopped a lightning helmet on his head.
I'm not sure I agree. He's played well enough this year that I can't say for certain that Peca, or Erne, or Conacher would step right in and replace what we'd be losing in the trade. Karlsson would offset a lot of his loss, and maybe one of those other guys would take up the rest of the slack, but it's a real consideration at this time of the year.If we're talking about Namestnikov, he should blink his ****ing face off.
I went on CapFriendly and tried to build a roster in two years keeping all the big names. CHI has 14 players making $1 million or less, and we would probably need more. We’d have six great NHLers with an AHL team. Who knows, it could work. Depth in hockey is so overrated.
Wow not even cal foote ?According to McKenzie, we're not offering Sergachev or even Foote.
McKenzie kinda crapped on what Steve was doing. Why is he wasting everyone's time with garbage offers? What's the point.According to McKenzie, we're not offering Sergachev or even Foote.
According to McKenzie, we're not offering Sergachev or even Foote.
Sorry, I was being sarcastic. I agree with you. The Chicago formula only works if you get real lucky with ELCs (then you can’t keep them) and your elite players don’t get injured or slump. I’d rather have depth. And unlike the PENs, we don’t have two top centers who can carry a line with rookies. Let’s be honest, Stamkos and Point are not Crosby and Malkin. And PIT won a cup with no elite Dmen.Pittsburgh has won back to back Stanley Cups with depth. Chicago hasn’t come close to contending since they lost theirs. We’ve been knocked out of the playoffs multiple times in large part because we didn’t get any offensive contributions from our lower lines.
I’ve done the same thing in terms of building a roster and we should be able to keep all our core players BUT we’ll need some young guys to step up and perform well on their ELCs. If we add Karlsson to our cap troubles while at the same time trading away all our top prospects the situation becomes untenable. Renting him is one thing: it’ll hurt us in the future when we’re filling those depth holes with lesser players, but at least you can argue that the short term gain might be worth it. But resigning him would absolutely kill us going forward and is IMO a nonstarter.
TSN. He said it. Kinda brutal what he was saying. No matter how much you love Steve, Bob is about as solid an NHL reporter as it gets. For him to crap on Steve's dealings the night before TDL is not the greatest look.Where did he say that? Sportcenter?
I have a tough time believing we're still in the mix if that's the case, unless Ottawa is high on Namestnikov.
If you have read all of Yzerman’s statements lately, he’s doing the opposite of “working up his fan base over nothing.” He’s been injecting reality, even throwing cold water on it. This is media driven.TSN. He said it. Kinda brutal what he was saying. No matter how much you love Steve, Bob is about as solid an NHL reporter as it gets. For him to crap on Steve's dealings the night before TDL is not the greatest look.
I hope this is part of Steve's negotiations. If not, why is he wasting everyone's time and working up his fanbase over nothing?
Possibly...If you have read all of Yzerman’s statements lately, he’s doing the opposite of “working up his fan base over nothing.” He’s been injecting reality, even throwing cold water on it. This is media driven.
My bet is we're lowballing until tomorrow afternoon when we get a feel for other teams' offers.
TSN. He said it. Kinda brutal what he was saying. No matter how much you love Steve, Bob is about as solid an NHL reporter as it gets. For him to crap on Steve's dealings the night before TDL is not the greatest look.
I hope this is part of Steve's negotiations. If not, why is he wasting everyone's time and working up his fanbase over nothing?
TSN. He said it. Kinda brutal what he was saying. No matter how much you love Steve, Bob is about as solid an NHL reporter as it gets. For him to crap on Steve's dealings the night before TDL is not the greatest look.
I hope this is part of Steve's negotiations. If not, why is he wasting everyone's time and working up his fanbase over nothing?
SY said from the beginning that he didn’t want to deal anything off his roster. I’m surprised that he doesn’t want to offer Foote though.
He probably sees the same things I see: our only RHD under team control after next season will be Dotchin, we can’t afford Karlsson’s next contract without gutting our roster, Foote is both our only real hope of developing a top four (or possibly even top pairing) RHD and one of our best chips with which to trade for one, and there are moves we can make to upgrade our defense for this playoff run that don’t require us to trade him away so there’s no point in doing so for a luxury like Karlsson.
Yzerman is most likely just trying to see if he can get Karlsson for a price that won’t disrupt his longterm plans to what he considers to be an unsatisfactory degree; if not he’ll move on to a different target. I just hope he doesn’t wait so long for Dorion to blink that those other targets all get taken by other teams.
An alternative explanation is that Yzerman is fine with trading Foote for Karlsson and would rather Foote be the last piece he caves on than offer Foote now and have Dorion demand that he up his offer from there.