Lapa
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Rumor: Nick Foligno to Minnesota
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CupInSIX
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Mickey Marner
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The NHL doesn't care about off-season tampering.
With all the family ties and friendships around the league, tampering is super common and unavoidable.
For example, they talked about this on Missin Curfew (Upshall/O'Brien/Hayes podcast) someone like Landeskog knows exactly what the Blues would offer him, communicated over a few beverages with his buddy ROR.
Nico Hughes
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I dont think Nick Foligno signing anywhere strongly points to anything
hes a bottom-6 player now, those two you named are top-6
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Or Strickland knows Wild were interested in Foligno at the trade deadline and is just connecting the dots
Reporters can't tamper, only GMs.
Reporter asks Marcus, "hey you think your brother might want to play with you one day?" then just tweets the response with no sources.
Worst move of Kyle Dubas' tenure by far.
Good riddance from my side but wish we didn't give up a 1st rounder for him. Jarmo fleeced Kyle.
It's less a top-6/bottom-6 question and more a question of open winger spots.
Zuccarello - X - Kaprizov
Boldy - Hartman(?) - Fiala
Greenway - Eriksson-Ek - M Foligno
Y - Sturm - Bjugstad
Does Foligno sign here to play 4th line LW with Sturm and Bjugstad? Or do we block out Boldy when he's clearly ready to step in next year? And I only have Hartman at center because I'm not sure what they do for those first two lines, but in reality he's a winger as well.
Nico Hughes
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If thats your worry, which I get; NJ would happily take a look into Fiala, whos buddy buddy with Hischier
Zacha+ as a return?
No.
And the idea wouldn't be that they need to make room for Foligno, but that they'd want to sign Foligno in anticipation of filling a hole at wing that doesn't currently exist.
2Pair
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Foligno would play with the other Foligno and Greenway while Ek is moved up higher in the lineup. After Ek fails, he will go back to playing with Marcus and Greenway while Nick moves to the 4th line with Hartman and Sturm
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The young man who will fill up one of the center spots for REAL is of course named: Marco Rossi. Period. He talented as F.
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This is going to be like when Scott Niedermayer joined Rob Niedermayer in Anaheim and won a cup.
At first I thought this is a good move to help the Leafs over the hump a bit. In hindsight yup... shit move. I like some of Dubas moves but this back fired bad. Hometown blah blah... I know you want to play with your brother fair enough... but yup... good riddance.
Nah, it's gunna be like when Luke Schenn joined Brayden Schenn in Philly, and they both won cups after they left
CupInSIX
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That's a really bade tradeoff so I hope for your sake they get a huge upgrade at C.
My assumption is that one would be traded to address the problem at center. I don't think anyone's going to trade away good young players just to add Nick Foligno.
Not that it's impossible to add Foligno and keep the other two, but I think it's very unlikely that all three end up on the Wild's Day 1 roster. Foligno would have to come very cheaply, on short term, and be comfortable with a limited role.
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