Johnny Hoxville
The Return of a Legend
You don’t give up a player of Dube’s age to protect a 38 year old.
Well my thinking is you trade Dube for assets and get them to take Kylington. Depends on how management views Dube.
You don’t give up a player of Dube’s age to protect a 38 year old.
The Flames are high on Dube, I think you are reading far too much into Sutter's comments on Dube, when he calls guys out, it's not because he isn't high on them, it's because he's trying to get more out of them. Sutter used to call out Iggy tooWell my thinking is you trade Dube for assets and get them to take Kylington. Depends on how management views Dube.
As long as Lucic's contract goes with the pick, I have no problem with it. We'll probably get a similar caliber player with the return for Gio, retained, at the deadline.I think we will trade this year's first round pick to protect Giordano, we are due for something stupid like this.
I think the logic is exposing Backlund could make them not take Giordano, while still saving us considerable cap. It's not about protecting another forward over BacklundWho would you have protected over Backlund?
I think the logic is exposing Backlund could make them not take Giordano, while still saving us considerable cap. It's not about protecting another forward over Backlund
Who would you have protected over Backlund?
You have to protect 7-3-1 or 4-4-1 so if you want protect gio you need to expose 3 forwards or another defenseman. It sucks we have to much depth but Giordano was the "easiest" to lose.Honestly, I don't know who **I'd** protect over Backlund, I'm just saying I figured the organization would have left him exposed maybe in favour of Gio or Kylington. I preferred they went with Backlund anyways.
I disagree, you're too focused on age. Backlund is our 3C, Gio is our 1D. Losing Giordano hurts this team significantly more than Backlund. We have literally no one ready to take over for Gio, but one of Dube or Zary might be ready to be a 3C and adding a 3C via trade is significantly easier than adding a 1DTo be honest that doesn't make the team better. Gio is closing in on 40 and has 1 year as far as team building this was the way.
I disagree, you're too focused on age. Backlund is our 3C, Gio is our 1D. Losing Giordano hurts this team significantly more than Backlund. We have literally no one ready to take over for Gio, but one of Dube or Zary might be ready to be a 3C and adding a 3C via trade is significantly easier than adding a 1D
I disagree, you're too focused on age. Backlund is our 3C, Gio is our 1D. Losing Giordano hurts this team significantly more than Backlund. We have literally no one ready to take over for Gio, but one of Dube or Zary might be ready to be a 3C and adding a 3C via trade is significantly easier than adding a 1D
I think saving 3 years at 5m+ would be a huge benefit. a Lindholm/Tkachuk line could face top lines pretty easily.You are correct for next season, but it’s not black and white. There are times that Backlund faces our opponents best players, he’s also younger than Gio so he holds more value to the franchise. But as you said, next season Gio is the bigger loss and we don’t have a replacement. It’s a massive blow.
I think saving 3 years at 5m+ would be a huge benefit. a Lindholm/Tkachuk line could face top lines pretty easily.
There haven't been many rumors, there have been two and then blogs piggybacking off those. There was 1 saying we were listening on Monahan, which is not saying anything since we listen on everyone always and another from Dreger who said he "thinks" Monahan could be available but at the same time he pointed out the Flames wouldn't entertain Monahan for PLD last off-season.I think your point is valid for sure. The Flames did protect Backlund though, we also don’t know what they have planned to do with our roster. In your scenario we likely we keep Monahan and add someone like a Lebanc on his wing.
Because Backs is being kept, I don’t think that at all means Monahan is gone, but there has been many rumours of it. If that were the case, keeping Backlund would be important.
Dreger who said he "thinks" Monahan could be available but at the same time he pointed out the Flames wouldn't entertain Monahan for PLD last off-season.
Dreger said PLD, Only a complete f***ing moron would have actually thought Monahan was in play for AndersonYou keep saying PLD but it was Josh Anderson we wouldn't move a C for.