expatriatedtexan
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- Aug 17, 2005
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What do y'all think of ROR and SOB for Phaneuf and McClement?
I'd rather lose ROR for nothing then take Phaneuf on this team.
You couldn't get 2 more opposite players than Phaneuf and ROR. ROR is a heart and soul, every shift like it is his last, and extremely high hockey IQ player. Phaneuf is a selfish, finger pointing, arrogant player with the hockey IQ of a bottle of marmalade.
What do y'all think of ROR and SOB for Phaneuf and McClement?
I posted this elsewhere as well, but wanted to hear peoples thoughts. Even if just me grabbing at thin air, could a deal be worked? Say because, oh, O'Reilly will never play for CO and Philly is eastern conference? I dunno.
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=655185&navid=nhl:topheads
I posted this elsewhere as well, but wanted to hear peoples thoughts. Even if just me grabbing at thin air, could a deal be worked? Say because, oh, O'Reilly will never play for CO and Philly is eastern conference? I dunno.
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=655185&navid=nhl:topheads
But it *is* bad. I'll take the Top 5 pick, but 3 tank years out of 5? That's NY Islanders territory. I get that bad things have happened this season, but this is the 4th year they've been rebuilding the team. Do you see real light at the end of this tunnel? My friend, I'm having trouble seeing it, to be honest.
I posted this elsewhere as well, but wanted to hear peoples thoughts. Even if just me grabbing at thin air, could a deal be worked? Say because, oh, O'Reilly will never play for CO and Philly is eastern conference? I dunno.
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=655185&navid=nhl:topheads
I would puke. Don't want Phaneuf and his contract at all on this team.
And McClement bolted last year and he would bolt again.
ROR for Phaneuf is a horrible trade.
I'd rather lose ROR for nothing then take Phaneuf on this team.
You couldn't get 2 more opposite players than Phaneuf and ROR. ROR is a heart and soul, every shift like it is his last, and extremely high hockey IQ player. Phaneuf is a selfish, finger pointing, arrogant player with the hockey IQ of a bottle of marmalade.
Phaneuf.... does give... the best.... interviews.... in.... hockey.
Besides, if it doesn't work out, we can trade him to Easter Island as a tour guide.
I don't think Phaneuf would fit in with the chemistry of this team, and he has too many holes in his game for me to be enthralled with trading O'Reilly for him. IMO if the Avs trade O'Reilly it needs to be in a package for a top defenseman, or in a package for a top pick on a can't miss type of prospect. Other than that I say they be patient, and/or try and find some way of smoothing out the relationship with O'Reilly, though that appears highly unlikely.
McClement turned down a much better offer from the Avs to play with Toronto, so it doesn't seem like he really wanted to play here. I doubt the Avs have any interest in re-acquiring him because of that.
Out of curiosity...where does the hatred of Dion come from?
I know Phaneuf is overpaid...what top pairing dman not on an ELC isn't? I just thought that as a huge minute eating right shooting dman that he would be a significant upgrade to our top d unit. The guy is logging 27+ minutes a night right now. That would push Wilson down to playing with Hejda and then keep ROB, Hunwick and Zannon on the bottom pairing and hopefully get Barrie back to LEM for some major minutes on ice.
Out of curiosity...where does the hatred of Dion come from?
I'm not so down on Phaneuf as many in here, but I wouldn't want him in Colorado, for the simple reason that Dater's man crush on the guy would use up half the state's available bandwidth and disk space.
A Phaneuf-EJ pairing is an interesting one to contemplate. I've always felt that Phaneuf has some very unique innate skillsets, and that his positioning is crappy at times. Though I also can't help but wonder why EJ seems to get such a pass in here due to crappy defense partners, but Phaneuf isn't given that same accommodation.
“@cashisking011: @adater @RealKyper said tonight he'd be shocked if O'Reilly ever played another game for Colorado again.â€/ agreed
Just now from Dater
I'm fairly certain that Dater has close to zero inside knowledge and speculates in trades/offer sheets just to stir up ****. He's done it quite a bit in the past.
He's pretty much only reliable for injuries, starting goaltenders and other things Avs officially release.
But it *is* bad. I'll take the Top 5 pick, but 3 tank years out of 5? That's NY Islanders territory. I get that bad things have happened this season, but this is the 4th year they've been rebuilding the team. Do you see real light at the end of this tunnel? My friend, I'm having trouble seeing it, to be honest.
That light at the end of the tunnel might be a hell of a lot brighter if we drafted in the top 5 one more season.
Right now we have one trade chip to fill two holes. I don't think we get the rebuild done with unless we draft in the top 5 one more time. We over achieved the one year fine... We got Landeskog instead of Hall/Seguin, we need one more core piece for the top 6 or the top pair on defense. We can trade one of our centers for the other...
Stewart might have been sad to leave, but he took the parting shot at Avs fans when he did.
Kypreos and Dater are the 2 dumbest reporters out there.
Dumb and Dumber ?
Out of curiosity...where does the hatred of Dion come from?
I know Phaneuf is overpaid...what top pairing dman not on an ELC isn't? I just thought that as a huge minute eating right shooting dman that he would be a significant upgrade to our top d unit. The guy is logging 27+ minutes a night right now. That would push Wilson down to playing with Hejda and then keep ROB, Hunwick and Zannon on the bottom pairing and hopefully get Barrie back to LEM for some major minutes on ice.
I'm not so down on Phaneuf as many in here, but I wouldn't want him in Colorado, for the simple reason that Dater's man crush on the guy would use up half the state's available bandwidth and disk space.
A Phaneuf-EJ pairing is an interesting one to contemplate. I've always felt that Phaneuf has some very unique innate skillsets, and that his positioning is crappy at times. Though I also can't help but wonder why EJ seems to get such a pass in here due to crappy defense partners, but Phaneuf isn't given that same accommodation.
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