Why would we trade Methot?
We traded for Bobby because Alfie left hours earlier. You strike out once means you never take another swing?
You have to take swings on the right players.
Did anyone stop to ask why teams like Edmonton, Colorado and St Louis have underachieved for years? Do you really want to give up premium assets for players on underachieving teams? Put all the stats and fancy draft swoon talk aside (speaking mostly about Landeskog here as the premier draft baby at the time), and ask why these core guys aren't lifting their teams out of the muck?
You have to take swings on the right players.
Did anyone stop to ask why teams like Edmonton, Colorado and St Louis have underachieved for years? Do you really want to give up premium assets for players on underachieving teams? Put all the stats and fancy draft swoon talk aside (speaking mostly about Landeskog here as the premier draft baby at the time), and ask why these core guys aren't lifting their teams out of the muck?
You have to take swings on the right players.
Did anyone stop to ask why teams like Edmonton, Colorado and St Louis have underachieved for years? Do you really want to give up premium assets for players on underachieving teams? Put all the stats and fancy draft swoon talk aside (speaking mostly about Landeskog here as the premier draft baby at the time), and ask why these core guys aren't lifting their teams out of the muck?
I like Landeskog a lot and think he'd be perfect for our team. But I'm sure there are other players around the league we could target that are just as valuable, if not more so.
Ceci + Dzingel + 1st
I wonder how close that is, probably still a ways off. Ceci has not been great this season but he would be difficult to replace internally. That being said, we're not winning the Cup this year and the expansion draft looms.
Ceci
Englund
2017 1st
For
Matt Duchene
Getter done.
Duchene would be really good. Speed and can play LW and center
Cannot be stated enough times: Duchene is a 2 year rental and that needs to factor in his valuation.
We simply don't have the money to re-sign both Duchene and Turris to the 7M deals they will ask for when their contracts are up, which means we'll be forced to let one of them leave via free agency when their contracts are up (horrible asset management). Hell I'm not even sure we can afford to re-sign Turris and Brassard as it is. Even if we can, do we want to with Brown and White coming through the pipeline? Not to mention other young centers like Pageau, Lazar, Paul and Chlapik are likely in the organization's long-term plans.
Sacrificing our future for Duchene only makes sense if we're going to win a cup when he's here. As it stands right now that's a pipe dream. In order to get Duchene we'll have to strip some good pieces off the roster (Ceci/Chabot on D + a good forward) and will have 6M in cap space taken away that can't be used to better the roster in any other ways. Our defense will be weakened, likely to the point where it is no longer a strength, and our goaltending will still be questionable. It's a long-shot acquisition that in all likelihood would backfire tremendously.
Let's be honest guys, trading Zibanejad for Brassard pretty much ended all hope of acquiring a guy like Duchene. We already traded a great young player and a good pick for what was thought to be an upgrade at center. As much as I would like Duchene in a Sens uniform, we simply don't have the cap space or the expendable assets to get a deal done here.
I honestly think that the Avs' coaching and bad defense(ie not being able to get the puck out of the defensive zone) is what is causing their forwards to underperform.
I think Duchene would do really well here.
Why isn't my karlson lifted us out of mediocrity? Would teams really want him?
I think that element is overstated. It's not as if they're poison. They're still really good hockey players.
Also. Human. It's not like they only know how to lose. It's ridiculous to even think about imagine applying that thinking to yourself.
Hall just got traded. Guess what. Was good. Is still good. And will continue to be good.
Switch Karlsson with Barrie or Sekera and this team looks a lot like Edmonton or Colorado
Edmonton is lucky they got McDavid or they'd still be a disaster
Even with out EK there d is still better then Edmonton.
He left because Eugene screwed him over after playing the last couple years at a small salary. Management agreed to compensate him and then reneged at contract talks. They did not need to make an impulse trade, i'm quite sick of impulse trades as well. Who would you rather have today, Ryan or Silfverberg? would you rather Zibby and Silfverberg or Ryan and Brassard based on $?
Switch Karlsson with Barrie or Sekera and this team looks a lot like Edmonton or Colorado
Edmonton is lucky they got McDavid or they'd still be a disaster
This is such garbage.
First. Alfredsson AGREED to that contract that paid him less in the final years but that came with the bonus of it being front loaded so he got paid more in the early years. This whole argument that he was owed something drives me nuts because he agreed to the damn contract.
Second, all Murray did was make an opening offer. That's negotiating. Was it a bad decision to try to save $500K on the franchise player? Maybe, but going into a negotiation and offering up exactly what the other person wants is stupid. You always try to get the best deal for both parties. Aflie and his agent not responding at all to the Sens is way too often overlooked. The whole situation was handled poorly by both sides.