But it could also be really smart to move him now if he doesn’t come back the same. It’s a situation I wouldn’t want to have to figure out.Yep that Byram trade wouldn’t haunt us at all…
Dhailiwal is legit so he almost certainly isn’t making it up. However that’s not to say the Canucks brass aren’t trying to put names like that out there to drive up the price. I mean look at why Lebrun was saying yesterday about how Vancouver doesn’t want to trade Miller. What a load of crap that is. There’s no way there’s that much fire around a player without them having some interest in moving him. A lot of this media fire is often team driven and I think Vancouver are proving it about as much as I remember seeing in recent memory.
But it could also be really smart to move him now if he doesn’t come back the same. It’s a situation I wouldn’t want to have to figure out.
Chaos Giraffe.
I wouldn’t do it for Miller, but like I posted earlier if you can pry Petey out with Byram you definitely look at that.If they don't think Byram can return, then I don't think the trade happens at all. Avs have been patient with him, and I truly believe he's in the long term plans.
Miller is nice, but this trade doesn't feel like a Sakic move at all.
This would be the ultimate "sell low" situation imo
f***. Byram for OEL and the Chaos Giraffe.
Would that be Pettersson?
Let’s make it even bigger. Find a way to get Demko involved.I'd be ok with Byram for Miller so long as EJ was going the other way with Byram to clear that 6M and Miller came at 50%. Lol.
- Joe Sakic doesn’t say things publicly without it being his full, thought-out truth, and I think some underestimated when he said a few weeks back that “we’re still hoping to get him back” for this season, on the subject of Bo Byram. I’ve taken more of a “back off” approach when it comes to digging deep on his status, since he’s still technically on a personal leave from the team. I got quite a bit of flack for calling his dad right after he took the leave (though I wasn’t the only reporter to do that) and didn’t really enjoy the backlash much at all on that one. Normally, things roll of my back pretty easy when it comes to criticism, but I didn’t enjoy the perception that I was somehow invading someone’s privacy. I’m an aggressive reporter, yeah, but I don’t go digging into any player’s private life and I don’t write anything – anything – when I’m told it’s off the record. Byram’s dad went on the record with me – and I double-checked with him twice to make sure he was OK with his comments being on the record – but he later regretted it and asked me to take the story down. So that’s what I did. I don’t want any trouble, and I don’t want to feel like some a-hole who writes stuff behind their back.
- This all leads me back to writing what “I’m hearing” on Byram, which is that things have gone well since he’s resumed skating. And, that it’s looking more likely he’ll attempt to make a return before the end of the regular season. Keep in mind, though: anything could change at any minute. With concussion stuff, you just can’t make any hard and fast predictions. But things seem positive again, and when a guy like Sakic publicly says the Avs “hope” to have him back, you can’t easily dismiss the importance of that statement.
That’s my only sticking point with Miller. I’d probably do it with an extra year on the contract but a year and a half I think just isn’t worth it for me.I don't think Byram for JT is THAT crazy. The issue is that Miller only has another year left. If he was signed for 4 years that's a no brainer for me.