Roboturner913
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You know I have so very little to do when I'm dreaming stuff like this up in the middle of the day....
But what if the Jordan Staal trade had not happened?
We keep Dumoulin, Sutter and the #8 pick. Let's assume that with Faulk, Dumoulin, Pitkanen and Sekeras (and even McBain who looked like a much better player at that point than he turned out to be) we don't duplicate the Pens' pick of Pouliot. Instead, looking for forward help, we take Filip Forsberg.
Naturally we still end up going with a youth movement on defense the next few years anyway because Pitkanen is old and McBain turns out to be junk.
And then the next offseason, we end up signing Jordan anyway....(it was always a strong possiblity).
The biggest impacts I can conceive on the current lineup is that we don't have Teravainen because Forsberg at $6 million precludes taking on Bickell's cap hit. Let's assume we also don't make the blunder on the long-term contract with Semin, and that playing with a talent like Forsberg is a major boon to E. Staal's production.
I think we probably still end up getting Stempniak this offseason, that being a somewhat typical FA singing for the org over its existence. Still, your current lineup could very well looking something like this:
DiGuiseppe-E. Staal-Forsberg
Skinner-Rask-Lindholm
Aho-J. Staal-Stempniak
Nestrasil-Nordstrom-Stalberg
Dumoulin-Faulk
Slavin-Pesce
Hanifin-Murphy
Butterfly effect being what it is, it's impossible to predict exactly what would happen, but the possiblity of retaining those three assets from that trade and still ending up with J. Staal is hard not to think about.
and yes, I have been drinking
But what if the Jordan Staal trade had not happened?
We keep Dumoulin, Sutter and the #8 pick. Let's assume that with Faulk, Dumoulin, Pitkanen and Sekeras (and even McBain who looked like a much better player at that point than he turned out to be) we don't duplicate the Pens' pick of Pouliot. Instead, looking for forward help, we take Filip Forsberg.
Naturally we still end up going with a youth movement on defense the next few years anyway because Pitkanen is old and McBain turns out to be junk.
And then the next offseason, we end up signing Jordan anyway....(it was always a strong possiblity).
The biggest impacts I can conceive on the current lineup is that we don't have Teravainen because Forsberg at $6 million precludes taking on Bickell's cap hit. Let's assume we also don't make the blunder on the long-term contract with Semin, and that playing with a talent like Forsberg is a major boon to E. Staal's production.
I think we probably still end up getting Stempniak this offseason, that being a somewhat typical FA singing for the org over its existence. Still, your current lineup could very well looking something like this:
DiGuiseppe-E. Staal-Forsberg
Skinner-Rask-Lindholm
Aho-J. Staal-Stempniak
Nestrasil-Nordstrom-Stalberg
Dumoulin-Faulk
Slavin-Pesce
Hanifin-Murphy
Butterfly effect being what it is, it's impossible to predict exactly what would happen, but the possiblity of retaining those three assets from that trade and still ending up with J. Staal is hard not to think about.
and yes, I have been drinking