Speculation: Taylor Hall scratched Friday and Saturday - trade imminent?

[Taluss]

Heponiemi has no goals and a smattering of assists. Good chance he’s a scratch for poor ply.

Interesting, didnt realise cheers. What about Bogstrom?

 

[Forge]

Interesting, didnt realise cheers. What about Bogstrom?

The official word there was that he was scratched due to an undisclosed injury. True or not, I don't know, but that was the reason given.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Heponiemi has no goals and a smattering of assists. Good chance he’s a scratch for poor ply.

According to this, they're scratched for precautionary reasons:

 

[Forge]

According to this, they're scratched for precautionary reasons:

Ugh, I was really hoping this one was the reliable one

 

[None Shall Pass]

Ugh, I was really hoping this one was the reliable one

One is an Athletic writer quoting the franchise.

The other is a random Twitter account.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Ugh, I was really hoping this one was the reliable one

I would say George Richards trumps the other one.

 

[Shnooks]

Did nobody notice a billionaire bought the Coyotes this summer and they now have one of the richest owners in the league? They’re a cap team not a budget team.

"One of the richest owners in the league?"

Not Top-15.

The 15 richest billionaire NHL club owners, and how they made their fortune

 

[Cousin Eddie]

George Richards is the man

 

[EnglishDevil]

Hope so, don't want Borgstrom at all; Heponiemi would be an interesting throw-in but he doesn't have immense value.

 

[Heldig]

Same, especially if it's Arizona lol

Why especially? Team on the rise, rich new owner, by most accounts a great place to live...

 

[BuLLeT1291]

If the Sharks could make the dollars work for this season (unlikely) they would be a good fit. Reunite Hall with his junior coach and they should be able to extend him as they have quite a bit of UFA money coming off the cap with M.Karlsson, Thornton, Marleau, Dillon, Heed and Dell coming off the books.

Even all of those contracts combined will not equal what Hall is gonna get in UFA and then you gotta replace all those roster players with other players so no, the Sharks are about one of the worst fits in the entire league.

 

[BM14]

lol Arizona.

 

[Forge]

Posted in Devs forum:

Per Hockey Night Hotstove: Coyotes the front runner. Believed their top 2 prospects are NOT part of the offer. Hanging over Bahl. Believed Coyotes were the first to make a formal offer, and Devils have tried to up it with other teams and struggled. They have not given any teams permission to speak with Hall.

When this return inevitably comes back weak, this is all we need to look back on. The Yotes are apparently haggling over Bahl, who's what, maybe their third best prospect in the system depending on your feelings, and the Devils can't get anyone to top the offer. Seriously tells you where Hall's market value is.

 

[Crazy Joe Divola]

No permission to speak to hall makes me think no team is gonna offer you top tier stuff.

 

[rt]

"One of the richest owners in the league?"

Not Top-15.

The 15 richest billionaire NHL club owners, and how they made their fortune

Meruelo has multiple billions.

 

[Forge]

No permission to speak to hall makes me think no team is gonna offer you top tier stuff.

For sure. This is a sell off as a rental, probably to get it done as quickly as possible, and then most likely just attaching a conditional pick on it.

 

[Cousin Eddie]

Kevin Bahl is a great prospect.
As an Avs fan in glad Az seems to be in the lead. In order for the Avs to top that offer they’d have to include Timmins which I wouldn’t be okay with.

Bahl ++ is a good offer for NJ. They should be pleased. AZ should also be pleased to get a star forward. Get this over with!

 

[Cousin Eddie]

No permission to speak to hall makes me think no team is gonna offer you top tier stuff.

Yeah it’s pretty obvious that Shero knows he isn’t extending in season or else he’d be dumb not to allow teams to speak to him since it would better the offers coming in. He’d rather teams acquiring thinking perhaps there’s a small chance. If they talk to him they’ll realize there’s 0 chance.

 

[Forge]

Kevin Bahl is a great prospect.
As an Avs fan in glad Az seems to be in the lead. In order for the Avs to top that offer they’d have to include Timmins which I wouldn’t be okay with.

Bahl ++ is a good offer for NJ. They should be pleased. AZ should also be pleased to get a star forward. Get this over with!

Depends on what the + is, but if it is around what I thought it was going to be earlier in the thread, I have no cause to be upset by the return. Rentals are rentals.

 

[StreetHawk]

"One of the richest owners in the league?"

Not Top-15.

The 15 richest billionaire NHL club owners, and how they made their fortune

Hall has no control whether AZ trades for him. He does control whether he decides to sign with them. He’s been with Edm and NJ.
Does he look at the AZ roster less what they give up to acquire him as a legit contending team over the next 4-5 seasons while he’s still in his prime?

he’s going to be well paid. He will have made $45 million or so through a decade in the nhl. Expect him to secure a Skinner to Seguin type cap hit.

 

[Eggtimer]

If no trade announced tonight I’m feeling like this was just Shero trying Jedi mind tricks to drive up value .
It’s looking like the return might be very underwhelming if Shero is resulting to that .
Screw you GMs for doing your jobs well and not pulling a McPhee Forsberg trade

 

[Pitaya]

Apparently SportsNet had a segment and it was mentioned Arizona has made an offer and it will not involve Hayton or Soderberg.

Defenseman Bahl would be the best prospect going back

Makes you wonder what else is involved because Arizona needs cap relief and Bahl is not nearly enough, even though he seems like a perfect fit for NJ

 

[bert]

If they get Bahl and a first for Hall thats a way better return than the sens got for Stone and he extended.

Bahl is a good prospect. Incredible mobility for 6'7 has a real mean streak and moves the puck really well.

 

[TeddyBare]

I mentioned Bahl in the other thread.

Zac Urback who is analytics consultant in the OHL commented on a post in Twitter about Bahl and his defensive analytics being stellar.

Arizona is highly involved analytics team so it makes sense.

 

[Eggtimer]

I have not watched Bahl at all .
All I have seen is doing 20 minutes of reading prospect websites.
Doesn’t really get me pumped up if he is the main piece coming back.
Big defensive defence man projected to max out as a second paring D ....
Anyone that watches him have any more to say regarding him ?