@ umbertovanek, Larsson is a quality piece but in all honesty he would be a little redundant on our team. We have Colborne, Shore, Reinhart and Arnold already, and Jankowski is still developing, so I'd pass. Plus we have Monahan, Bennett and Backlund. I'd personally only take Stewart if you took back Raymond and we added a little sweetner like a 3rd. Stafford is a good winger, but again we already have so much depth, we're rebuilding and it doesn't make sense for us to trade assets for a player like him. I think Pysyk 1 for 1 is the best option for both parties. I know Zadorov is a no go, but for reasons I mentioned in my previous post I listed him.
Gotcha, we're all just here to have a little fun and indulge in some hockey talk.
That's why I don't understand the heated seriousness some threads tend to take on sometimes, but oh well. And you're spot on about how real-life trades tend to come about. That's why you end up with, say Erat for Forsberg or Seguin for Eriksson, or the Niedereiter trade, which noone on the internet would have done. There's a pretty insightful episode of the Bruins execs behind the scenes, where they show rather openly how things are decided leading up to the Seguin trade. Pretty good stuff.
Yeah probably Pysyk makes sense. Tim Murray is absolutely not gonna trade Zadarov or any 1st rounder picks.
I personally would love McCabe, not sure how high you guys are on him.
Well, if Pysyk's on the table, McCabe would be as well. They are generally seen in the same tier, with McCabe being the more exciting player (in both the negative as well as positive sense), Pysyk the more responsible one. I for one am not super excited about trading away d-prospects, even in the light of Risto, Zads and Myers (re-)emergence. I strongly believe in building a deep and dominant blueline as basis for a winning team.
That being said, a talent like Baertschi, an explosive skilled scoring winger with first line upside, we are currently lacking, closest being Ennis, so you gotta give to get. All depends on whether you believe he's gonna be a player or not. Not sure if Sven is worth it right now, but I'd probably even prefer to put one of our late 1sts on the table, rather than our dmen, to be honest.