Right away you come to the stumbling block. We need some certainty with Trouba. The uncertainty gets in the way.
You are assuming that Myers is still a top 4 D and that he still has substantial trade value. I'm not jumping in to the 'career ending' injury pool but there is doubt about his future.
Still, without Myers we should have a strong top 4:
Morrissey - Trouba
Enstrom - Buff
though it begs the question, why was our D so poor this year? It wasn't injuries because, apart from Myers the D injuries all came late in the season.
Ehlers isn't enough for Hanifan.
It would take Laine to get Werenski.
Ehlers isn't enough for Hanifan.
It would take Laine to get Werenski.
It probably would take Laine to get Werenski but that would be horrible value. Put the shoe on the other foot. If CBJ came looking to get Laine and all they offered was Werenski, all they would hear is laughter behind the door slammed in their face.
You do know that Hanifin has been disappointing so far, right? You don't wonder why Canes fans seem willing to trade him instead of anyone else?
Trading Ehlers for Hanifin now would be like backing up 7 years and trading P. Kane for Bogosian. No flipping way!!!! With extreme prejudice. Not even close.
Also wouldn't trade Ehlers for Hanifin, at least not until Hanifin shows more. Ehlers is a stud.
Yea to your first bolded most of this is in a snap shot of next season. Myers goes status quo unless Trouba gets extended this summer. I think Myers will come back ok and if he does he will have very solid trade value if and when the situation presents itself.
The problem with our D was we did lose 117 man games to injury out of our original starting top 4 defenders (Buff, Trouba, Toby, Myers) which is 1.4 players out per game. On top of that even our 5 and 6 spots of Postma and Chairot lost 40 games.
Rolling in Morrissey our top 7 D men lost 157 man games to injury which steep and it explains allot.
I agree Myers will have good value but not until after he has proven himself. I'm not panicing but no one is going to pay for him until after he has played well for a while.
The only 1 of our original top 4 injured early was Myers. We had Trouba holding out but Myers played for most of that. Morrissey kept us at 4 top 4 D. Other than that the D injuries all came later in the season. Not quite to garbage time but until we were realistically almost out of the race. I don't have the exact details but it was roughly 50 games missing either Trouba or Myers before we got down 2 D at the same time. The first half of the season it was Fs that were injured. Lots of them.
How does everyone feel about UFA Steve Mason? Sounds like he is done with the Flyers - as he's stated if he has to "platoon" with Neuvirth next season, he's not interested in coming back.
He had a cap hit of $4.1M this past season. Had a bit of a down year in 16-17 posting a .908 save percentage, but was quite good the previous two seasons.
How does everyone feel about UFA Steve Mason? Sounds like he is done with the Flyers - as he's stated if he has to "platoon" with Neuvirth next season, he's not interested in coming back.
He had a cap hit of $4.1M this past season. Had a bit of a down year in 16-17 posting a .908 save percentage, but was quite good the previous two seasons.
My ideal situation is Poolman comes in and looks really good on the Moose through 30 allowing us to move Myers around Xmas and not miss a beat.
It's tough for me to get a read on Mason, but hard to argue with the results he produced in Philly (outside of this past season).
Jeff Reese was apparently instrumental in helping him find his game with the Flyers when he was their goalie coach. Would be nice if they came to Winnipeg as a package deal.
He was bad for his entire time with CBJ. He'd been very good before that and after until this year. I think it is probably just an off year. Probably.
Not his entire time with CBJ, he did win the Calder with them. He was bad in the other seasons, but was also young and probably could have used some extra development time in the AHL. A victim of his own early success, you could say.
I'm usually impressed when I watch him, he's got great technique. Plays "big and boring" for the most part, but also has that athleticism and dynamic ability that someone like Hellebuyck still needs to develop.
It's tough for me to get a read on Mason, but hard to argue with the results he produced in Philly (outside of this past season).
Jeff Reese was apparently instrumental in helping him find his game with the Flyers when he was their goalie coach. Would be nice if they came to Winnipeg as a package deal.
With Poolman now in the fold, is Postma resigned?
Buff, Trouba, Myers, Poolman, Nogier - and Chiarot or Morrissey able to play their off-hand, i don't think Postma is resigned unless he has no other offers. He wouldn't be my priority this off-season, tbh.