Jumptheshark
Rebooting myself
from the Canucks POV we are winners. No more 4m dollar Spizza delivery man.
Shocked mcphee took the pylon with no deal in place to gain a pick
from the Canucks POV we are winners. No more 4m dollar Spizza delivery man.
Shocked mcphee took the pylon with no deal in place to gain a pick
Isles the biggest losers by a country mile....giving up a first and a second rounder?....can't think of a single guy on the Islanders not named John Tavares who's worth that....should have just coughed up a guy like Bailey or Nelson and just gone with the flow
Without trading picks, Vegas could've ended up with a solid core of young players who down the line probably could've fetched more than he got to not take them. The biggest ones being Dumba and Nelson.
I think Vegas did well, they recieved a ton of draft picks, and have a solid enough team to not get embarrassed on a nightly basis.
Solid goaltending with potential (Pickard)
Good D depth
Centers are blah but we already knew that was gonna happen.
Wingers are surprisingly good...
Neal - 20-30 goal guy
Marchessault - 30 goals last year
Perron - Can pot 15-25
Smith - score 20 goals twice
Leipsic/Lindberg/Pulkkinen - Young talented hope one breaks out
I think with some of the prenegotiated deals (mainly Anaheim, I'm sure to some extent some others), you can't fault Vegas for not selecting the best players and taking less in a trade. Using Anaheim as an example, there was a deal in place reported a week plus ago, which is why ANA didn't have to buy out Bieksa. This deal is a win-win, Vegas gets Theodore, ducks keep vatanen and Manson. But let's say this never happened as Vegas hopes to get one of Manson/vatanen:
Anaheim buys out Bieksa, but no way they are going to lose of the d-men for free, so they make a trade with one of the numerous interested parties. Now who does Vegas take? They don't get Vatenan, Manson, or Theodore. Let's not act like Vegas had ALL the control. They would have of teams couldn't have made trades last week, but that wasn't the case. I think Vegas had to settle for smaller returns to prevent teams from trading away unprotected players.
I guess you could have a deal in place and then say "screw you" and take the best player anyway, but I imagine that would have terrible repercussions long term.
So Vegas has all of these players but now they don't have any leverage. Ya they have decent players on ok contracts, but if teams wanted to sit back and let them sweat, Vegas could have just ****ed themselves. The other teams could technically try and wait it out to get these guys for pennies on the dollar.
Because as we know, NHL GMs definitely have solidarity and will refuse to pay a significant price for a player just so their competitions doesn't get them.
How is them having decent players to trade any different than when any other team has them?
Without trading picks, Vegas could've ended up with a solid core of young players who down the line probably could've fetched more than he got to not take them. The biggest ones being Dumba and Nelson.
So Vegas has all of these players but now they don't have any leverage. Ya they have decent players on ok contracts, but if teams wanted to sit back and let them sweat, Vegas could have just ****ed themselves. The other teams could technically try and wait it out to get these guys for pennies on the dollar. Unrealistic, but they won't be getting trade deadline like value.