I still like Moulson to come here
I know this is probably out of the realm of possibility, but what about trying to grab Gagner out of Edm? Is he sexy? No, but he could be had for cheap and effective here I think under Lav.
If we could have a first line of Moulson, Gagner, Neal that would be pretty crazy.
Otherwise, Statsny, Vinny, B. Richards, Spezza, Roy, ROR and Staal would be our trade/free agent options.
We just gotta temper our expectations a bit here.
I've seen Neal - Spezza - Hemský suggested in other threads. If Spezza and Hemský still have that chemistry and Neal could gel with those two guys then that would be a scary line. The price for Spezza seems to be high though. Hopefully Murray waits too long to trade Spezza and gets himself into a jam where he has to lower his price.
I know this is probably out of the realm of possibility, but what about trying to grab Gagner out of Edm? Is he sexy? No, but he could be had for cheap and effective here I think under Lav.
If we could have a first line of Moulson, Gagner, Neal that would be pretty crazy.
Otherwise, Statsny, Vinny, B. Richards, Spezza, Roy, ROR and Staal would be our trade/free agent options.
We just gotta temper our expectations a bit here.
I agree and could definitely see Gagner. It wouldn't be my first choice, but I'd settle for him.
We gotta remember that Poile's definition of "#1 center" might differ from most. I'm pretty sure he called Cullen a "#1 center" last summer.
I don't think ROR or Staal are moved, but I guess my order of preference would be something like:
Stastny
Spezza
Gagner
Vinny
Roy
Richards
Who else is out there? Grabovski, Santorelli... Krejci?
is skinner a center?
and i know top 6 seen it but a guy offered vinny + laughton + a second + 1st and 3rd next year for weber.. worst weber proposal ever
Even if we could get a player like Lecavalier I think would be an improvement.
I mean call Watson up to replace Hornqvist in front of the net and to replace Spaling.
On the powerplay you'd have
Watson, VLC and Neal up front with Weber and Josi on the points.
That would physically cause a lot of match up problems.
Just out of curiosity, why are people thinking Statsny wants to leave his fantastic situation in COL?
My biggest question is how does this effect the MDZ negotiations. Honest
MDZ: I want more money
Poile: We just traded for Neal and if you don't sign, I will make it Neal sole mission in this life and the next to hunt you down till he names every bone in your broken body and leaves you in a puddle of your own blood condemning you to an existence of crapping out bone chips. And if he doesn't do it, Weber will.
MDZ swallows and signs.