Speculation: Trade Speculation Part VI

[DevilChuk*]

Yeah I'm sure that 4th you'd include will really seal the deal..

Not to mention Yandle is signed for another 3 years at a reasonable hit of 5.2. Start with Henrique and Merrill for him.

Yea because that's exactly what I wrote: Henrique and a 4th. You really need to learn how to read.

Henrique + 2nd/3rd gets you Vanek, who's a UFA after next year.

Again, show me one superstar that returned players of Henrique AND Merril's caliber in the same trade.

 

[Devils86]

we'll do nothing..accept it with a smile

 

[NHL Fanatik*]

we'll do nothing..accept it with a smile

This can't be the case, almost impossible. The team doesn't have the prospects to keep going the way we're going. Don't have the picks either. This team's future isn't the brightest, and so doing nothing would do that for our future as well; nothing.

Something needs to be done. And Lou can do something without destroying our future with it

 

[Devils Dominion]

Rebuild and be sellers. Don't mortgage the future away for these guys. Not worth it.

 

[CerebralGenesis]

Maybe our next GM will sell. Lou doesn't do that

 

[Devils Trap]

Maybe our next GM will sell. Lou doesn't do that

Yea Lou has never learned the word "sell"

 

[Jack Griffin]

How many times has Lou been in the position to sell?

 

[NHL Fanatik*]

How many times has Lou been in the position to sell?

I think the question should be added to;

How many times has Lou been in the position to sell, and done it?

Answer would be none.

How many times has he been in the position to be able to sell?

Couple times.

 

[Rhodes 81]

Since we are all guessing randomly

My guess is ..................................................... Martin St.Louis

i would have the weirdest feel.

 

[jkrdevil]

We sold in 2011 when we are out of it.

You don't sell when you are a playoff position (and this year is the lowest playoff position we have ever been in under this format). People make too much of a deal of having to get something for guys. At this point you might as well go for it because what you get is crap. Plus you get cap space is guys walk which is valuable as well.

 

[aboriginal]

didnt yserbaert already say hes not dealing st louis? or something to that end.

 

[jkrdevil]

I think the question should be added to;

How many times has Lou been in the position to sell, and done it?

Answer would be none.

2011, we sold Langenbrunner and Arnott. We held onto Greene, but we then re-signed him.

Every other year from 1996-2011 we were is a 6th seed or higher playoff position.

We aren't in a sellers position this year either.

 

[CerebralGenesis]

I expect a slightly better player than the likes of Dago, Poni, and pre-trade Lokti at best. Lou doesn't seem interested in moving a lot of assets and we haven't lost more than a couple depth picks that are easily recoupable if he wants to make the effort.

 

[aboriginal]

Loki is gonna look adorable in the retro jerseys. whenever that is

 

[glenwo2]

If we got both. We would be stacked

We would be more stacked than that woman sitting behind Pete during the Finals last year.

 

[Hockey Sports Fan]

Yea Lou has never learned the word "sell"

And with good reason. That's part of the culture that has driven this franchise since Lou took over. The team comes first, and you play to win no matter what the situation.

 

[Czech Trio]

I doubt its Zubrus coming back. He hasn't even practiced with the team in how long. Probably some ****** call up, ya know Janssen is getting hot just at the right time...

 

[SteveCangialosi123]

A surprise Kovy return would cause tears of joy. A surprise deal for a top 6 forward would do the same.

 

[aboriginal]

vacation is when you go away for a while. and you dont ever come back.

 

[Classic Devil]

Rebuild and be sellers. Don't mortgage the future away for these guys. Not worth it.

As far as I'm concern, there's no such thing as "rebuild and be sellers." Teams who trade their solid veterans are teams who are just asking to be stuck in mediocrity. If you're a bad team, then at the deadline you trade players you think you are going to lose to UFA and who you think you can replace from within. You do not trade players who you think you have a good chance of keeping and who fill key parts of your lineup then pray you'll be able to replace them through other means.

Teams doing that get stuck in a perpetual cycle of trading the guys who have just come of age in the hopes of bringing in youth who will in the future come of age. Especially with UFA age as low as it is these days.

 

[Classic Devil]

2011, we sold Langenbrunner and Arnott. We held onto Greene, but we then re-signed him.

Every other year from 1996-2011 we were is a 6th seed or higher playoff position.

We aren't in a sellers position this year either.

We sold Arnott. We didn't "sell" Langenbrunner, we removed his presence from the locker room.

 

[Saugus]

I don't think Clarkson necessarily gets 5.

I think he'd take like $4.5. his loyalty (and Lou's) cannot be understated.

Lou's loyalty would actually make the price tag higher, I think. Clarkson might take a small discount.

How many times has Lou been in the position to sell?

Just in 2011. In 1996 we missed the playoffs on the last day of the season, so he didn't sell at the deadline. Every other year in Lou's tenure, we've made the playoffs.

In 2011 we dumped Langenbrunner and Arnott, but we didn't sell all of the UFAs. We kept Greene even when many people were clamouring that he should be traded too.

 

[AfroThunder396]

We sold in 2011 when we are out of it.

You don't sell when you are a playoff position (and this year is the lowest playoff position we have ever been in under this format). People make too much of a deal of having to get something for guys. At this point you might as well go for it because what you get is crap. Plus you get cap space is guys walk which is valuable as well.

We didn't sell in 2011. Lou had been trying to move Langs since well before the season started, and he traded Arnott as a personal favor when Arnott specifically asked.

 

[glenwo2]

vacation is when you go away for a while. and you dont ever come back.

Why am I lol'ing all of a sudden?

We sold Arnott. We didn't "sell" Langenbrunner, we removed his presence from the locker room.

Thank god we did.


Too bad we didn't do it a bit sooner. The season might have been salvaged to the point where the Devils got into the playoffs

 

[AfroThunder396]

Vanek would require a Henrique but not much else.

Do you know who Thomas Vanek is? It most certainly would require more, a lot more.