Speculation: The 2021 NHL Trade Deadline Thread | April 12th 2021 | 3:00 pm ET

[Todd1a]

Probably closer to 5 years. They're further away from contention than we were. At least with us, he had Hedman and Stamkos in place to build around. Larkin and Mantha don't strike me as cornerstones.

Seider

 

[Todd1a]

TRAIKOS: Tampa Bay's cap-circumventing trade yet another reason to hate on Florida | Toronto Sun

 

[These Are The Days]

Yes and no. If they're rebuilding, I don't expect Torts to be there long. Don't get me wrong, I think he'll find another job more/less instantly this time. But he's more the guy you want coaching talent that has already been developed. Not so much the guy you want developing them.

I'm gonna sound crazy but I actually think he could pull off the latter if he was mentally up to it. The only thing really stopping Tortorella from doing that is him. It's not like he didn't have veteran help to do it (namely Dave Andreychuk) but he took over a Lightning team that was still very much growing when he first got the job. You had a bunch of 20-somethings who had no idea what it took to win backstopped by Bulin and give it a few years they won it all.

But I digress because what you said is like 99% of what is gonna happen. Pretend for a second Coloardo pulls a 2019-2020 Lightning and lose in the playoffs in the most embarrassing fashion possible after the year they had. I don't see how Jared Bednar survives that when Torts is literally your guy for a team like that.

 

[These Are The Days]

Seider

He's not enough on his own. Should the Wings be picking near the top it would be very smart of them to take another defender at the top. The 2022 and 2023 drafts are gonna have some really good forward talent and once you've gone through that then MAYBE you're competing for a playoff spot if any of those guys can make the jump quickly. And even then I'm not banking on it. I think the Wings can dramatically improve in about 2 years but as for being a serious contender? Yeah, DFC's got it right at closer to 5 years

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

TRAIKOS: Tampa Bay's cap-circumventing trade yet another reason to hate on Florida | Toronto Sun

They salty

 

[DrMartinVanNostrand]

Don't forget divisional effects. At least in the near term future, there's us, Toronto, Florida, and probably still Boston who are all in good position to contend in this division. Playoff spots available to Detroit anytime in the near future will probably be at something of a minimum.

 

[DrMartinVanNostrand]

TRAIKOS: Tampa Bay's cap-circumventing trade yet another reason to hate on Florida | Toronto Sun

Why didn’t Toronto or Winnipeg do this?

You mean that thing the Lightning did with getting one team to retain 50%, trade him to another team, get them to retain another 25% (of the original salary), and the team getting the player only absorbs 25% of the player's salary?

Well, have I got a funny story for you...

 

[Stammertime91]

Well, given how biased the league is towards us and how much we cheat in every way possible, hopefully we land a few more cups to collect all the tears being shed.

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

 

[DFC]

Seider

Maybe, but maybe not. Defensemen are hard to project until they've been in the NHL for a minute. I think the Wings are still a long way off, but they'll eventually get there.

 

[Stammertime91]

Who? Lol

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

Calgary retains 50%

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

Coburn escapes Ottawa



Trades starting to roll in all of a sudden

 

[Point21]

I see us making 1 last Depth move and send at least one of Borgman or Schenn down

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

Boston finally trying to solve their one line team problem

 

[Sky04]

Everyone is loading up, this is going to be an exciting playoffs.

 

[The Gongshow]

The fact Hall only went for a 2nd is crazy. I know he's having a bad year but damn. Foligno and Savard got 1sts

 

[Todd1a]

The fact Hall only went for a 2nd is crazy. I know he's having a bad year but damn. Foligno and Savard got 1sts

im not surprised Buffalo screwed up this return for hall lol it’s Buffalo

 

[Byrddog]

im not surprised Buffalo screwed up this return for hall lol it’s Buffalo

Yet in the last 10 games Buffalo has the exact 10 points that we have... Its a funny game

 

[Felonious Python]

Today:

 

[Outl4w]

I see us shipping out a late pick 3/5 in this year or next year's draft for a depth defenseman or big body bottom 6 forward that can fill in when needed. Face it we need some guys to eat some minutes and bang some bodies to keep the rest of the team healthy.

 

[Felonious Python]

I mention Tradebreaker pretty much twice a year. Trade deadline and the draft. Fake Twitter accounts don't seem to be as successful anymore (famous last words), but tradebreaker has just legit hockey Twitter accounts.

 

[Felonious Python]

Think TB will waive Johnson again today?

 

[Five Alarm Fire]

Hoping for a backup goalie today. We need to rest Vasilevskiy down the stretch, the next month is pretty condensed.

 

[Five Alarm Fire]

TRAIKOS: Tampa Bay's cap-circumventing trade yet another reason to hate on Florida | Toronto Sun

The Toronto Sun is garbage tabloid news, this article is hilarious though.