Ottawa has a huge dilemma this summer because they need to figure out if Spezza is worth 6/7million for another 7 or 8 years. A healthy Spezza certainly is but a budget team like Ottawa can't afford to make a mistake on someone who might be injured a lot. Then again, if he did ask for a trade then, there is no dilemma.
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Ottawa has a huge dilemma this summer because they need to figure out if Spezza is worth 6/7million for another 7 or 8 years. A healthy Spezza certainly is but a budget team like Ottawa can't afford to make a mistake on someone who might be injured a lot. Then again, if he did ask for a trade then, there is no dilemma.
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I've turned the corner when it comes to dealing Spezza
I'd be down to trade him but not because I think he's bad or not good enough
-We have an incoming UFA crunch and we're broke
-We need some serious defensive help
Trading Spezza could offer some serious help on both accounts
That being said if I'm Murray and I'm looking at trading Spezza there is one condition: I need a great dman back, ideally a number 2. If that's not part of the deal then keep him, trading him for another forward would be silly: Spezza is one of the better centres in the NHL, if we part ways it has to be improve the area the team needs addressed.
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The Senators score plenty of goals
We need to give the opposition less
If Spezza gets traded it shouldn't to be replaced: we could stand to score less if it meant better defense
Sadly, this will likely be the case for some once he's moved out of the honeymoon phase of 'young player with high potential'.
I'm actually ambivalent towards the whole thing. I'm interested to see what happens, and how the last season is dealt with.
I want Spezza to succeed here, but I also know that I have no control over anything that goes in with the team, so I have have long ago decided to sit back and enjoy/be interested in the ride.
I would prefer that we not end up toiling in perpetual rebuild like the Oilers and Islanders of the league. This summer will give everyone a clearer picture on the direction we're headed in.
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Last year when we were allowed to talk to UFA's before July 1st, David Clarkson came to Ottawa for a visit.
Later it was clear he used us and Edmonton to get the biggest day out of Toronto he could.
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After this game Kassian definitely won't be re-signed. Keep an eye on free agent heavyweights in various leagues as the Sens will likely be in the market for his replacement this off season.
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These morons won't be happy until we're a team consisting of Smiths Greenings and Condras.
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Trade a package of players we don't want or like plus salary dumps for a player we could not realistically hope to get in a million years!
Get 'er done, Murray.
Yeah. I've seen spezza for Andrew shaw and spezza to LA for Dwight King. Safe to say some people would rather a bag of pucks for Turris to use than have spezza play for the Sens past this season.
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Keeping the budget in mind, and being decently realistic.
Let Milo walk, use that 4.5 mil to grab Andrew McDonald (Cost essentially offsets)
Use Cowen + Hoffman and/or Stone as trade bait for a winger to play with Spez and Hemsky, doesn't have to be an all-star just a guy who can pot 20-25 with all the chances he'll get from the other two (Also offsets cost)
New winger-Spezza-Hemsky
MacArthur-Turris-Ryan
Smith-Zibanejad-Lazar
Greening-???-Neil (Condra)
Methot-Karlsson
McDonald-Ceci
Wiercioch-??? (Phillips)
As for the ???'s, we have guys to play there, just not really sure who should. If we're willing to spend a bit extra we could sign a gritty 4th liner for about 1 mil (Someone like Konopka comes to mind) or maybe plug Grant in there. As for the D, maybe Phillips or Wiercioch could play on their off-side? Not sure who would be available on the FA market as a cheap available #6. I actually don't mind Gryba in there but I'm not completely sold on him yet.
As for resigning the future UFA's, Hemsky is going to require us to raise our budget by at least 3 mil since we're paying like 1/4 of his contract this year, although that's not too much to ask I think. I would try my best to give away Greening which would almost offset that cost for next year. Might have to pay in picks for someone to take him, I heard Calgary was willing to do this at the deadline, maybe they are at the draft?
Budget is going to have to increase for 2015-2016 but I imagine if Melnyk pockets the 30+ mil from the TSN contract for next season that should essentially offset his "losses" and we can raise the budget by another 5-7 mil to make sure we keep Ryan and MacArthur. At this point Lehner may be able to be a starter which means we can let Andy's 3 mil loose which probably pays for Ryan's pay raise.
Let Milo walk, use that 4.5 mil to grab Andrew McDonald (Cost essentially offsets)
Use Cowen + Hoffman and/or Stone as trade bait for a winger to play with Spez and Hemsky, doesn't have to be an all-star just a guy who can pot 20-25 with all the chances he'll get from the other two (Also offsets cost)
New winger-Spezza-Hemsky
MacArthur-Turris-Ryan
Smith-Zibanejad-Lazar
Greening-???-Neil (Condra)
Methot-Karlsson
McDonald-Ceci
Wiercioch-??? (Phillips)
As for the ???'s, we have guys to play there, just not really sure who should. If we're willing to spend a bit extra we could sign a gritty 4th liner for about 1 mil (Someone like Konopka comes to mind) or maybe plug Grant in there. As for the D, maybe Phillips or Wiercioch could play on their off-side? Not sure who would be available on the FA market as a cheap available #6. I actually don't mind Gryba in there but I'm not completely sold on him yet.
As for resigning the future UFA's, Hemsky is going to require us to raise our budget by at least 3 mil since we're paying like 1/4 of his contract this year, although that's not too much to ask I think. I would try my best to give away Greening which would almost offset that cost for next year. Might have to pay in picks for someone to take him, I heard Calgary was willing to do this at the deadline, maybe they are at the draft?
Budget is going to have to increase for 2015-2016 but I imagine if Melnyk pockets the 30+ mil from the TSN contract for next season that should essentially offset his "losses" and we can raise the budget by another 5-7 mil to make sure we keep Ryan and MacArthur. At this point Lehner may be able to be a starter which means we can let Andy's 3 mil loose which probably pays for Ryan's pay raise.
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Rentals got basically nothing this year so our return would be pretty bad. Teams didnt even want to trade 2014 firsts.
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Yes, because very few teams had the salary space to accommodate a high priced rental. Next year, there won't be that problem. Really just not comparable situations.
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