DingDongCharlie
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Staal could be a nice Jets rental
I have to agree as this was my thought also. If they make the offer they made for Duchence to Minny would it be accepted?
Staal could be a nice Jets rental
Well, that's one way to interpret it.Very good point. A team’s ability comes solely from the city they play in. It’s not that Boston is an attractive place to live so they attract the best coaches, gm, players, etc.
Well, that's one way to interpret it.
I think the passive aggressive personality of Minnesota stagnates anyone wanting to move there. I think back to when Moss slid across a cop's car and the media blew it up like he'd done something akin to murder.
And he was booted to where? and why? Boston.
Why? Cuz the fans there don't give 2 S@#$s whether a player does something like that, they demand wins. Minnesota has gotten so used to being the doormat in every league because you know, someone's best friend just had a kid and that person needs to hire that kid's BFF ...
Cities like Boston, NY, LA, Chicago, Detroit - they don't care who your bff is, they care that you win (and that you're mostly a decent human being).
Where'd KG go? Boston; huh, got a trophy there too, right? Big ring?
Trade Staal and give him a chance to win. #Cheers (yeah, 48 years in Duluth, Minneapolis and I don't miss this b.s. at all...)
The Canes love to get back together with an ex....our previous GM would drunk text them in the middle of the night and send stick pics.Sounds weird, sort of like me calling up my girlfriend from 1989 and asking her out.
Messy...too much history. And my wife might not dig it.
The Canes love to get back together with an ex....our previous GM would drunk text them in the middle of the night and send stick pics.
Give your head a shake and go away.Markus Granlund for Eric Staal
!st, Stanley and Petan?I have to agree as this was my thought also. If they make the offer they made for Duchence to Minny would it be accepted?
Yeah, that offer seems a bit much, though I don't hear much about Stanley these days. What is the pecking order as far as the Jets prospect Dmen ? Vesalainen, Niku, Samberg, and Stanley, in that order, or?!st, Stanley and Petan?
No way the Jets offer that for Staal.
I can see a 1st and Petan but no way is Stanley added to that.
If we were able to re-sign Staal to a 2 x 4.75m deal, I would add a 2nd rounder in 2020.
Not moving a 1st for a rental. Isles do not have a 3rd or 4th this yr. Kinda tough to have only a 2nd in the first 4 rounds of a strong draft.I think they extend him and offer a little extra money if he wants to stay.
If he goes get traded I think the Wild get a tad bit extra for him because of how cheap his contract is. But I think the one team who should try getting him should be either Calgary or NYI.
Vesalainen is a forward, but otherwise that's correct.Yeah, that offer seems a bit much, though I don't hear much about Stanley these days. What is the pecking order as far as the Jets prospect Dmen ? Vesalainen, Niku, Samberg, and Stanley, in that order, or?
Minnesota is just too polite (sadly).
Trade Staal, give him a chance for a cup
That would depend on who is doing the pecking order...Vaseline is a forward.Yeah, that offer seems a bit much, though I don't hear much about Stanley these days. What is the pecking order as far as the Jets prospect Dmen ? Vesalainen, Niku, Samberg, and Stanley, in that order, or?
That would depend on who is doing the pecking order...Vaseline is a forward.
Most would put it Niku, Samberg and then Stanley but I would put Samberg first and then Niku and Stanley.
I can see Stanley being included. If Niku works out, and Samberg plays with the Jets in the 2020-2021 season, there isn't much room for him.Brain fart on Vesalainen. I don't see WPG moving any of those D for a rental, then. Buff isn't getting younger, Trouba could be gone this summer, and they have some young talent to pay. Would be smarter to keep all your young ELC Dmen.
Ha....Minni will never have a cup. It's part of the culture there (native born, bred, raised, son born there, raised there... we left)
A winning culture comes from the culture the team resides in. Why do you think Boston has so many winning teams... again, and again... and again ... in every major sport?
Minnesota is just too polite (sadly).
Trade Staal, give him a chance for a cup
The Canes love to get back together with an ex....our previous GM would drunk text them in the middle of the night and send stick pics.
Boston built that team through the draft and through trades - very little through free agency. Coaches and Management is all nepotism. Pretty weak argument.Very good point. A team’s ability comes solely from the city they play in. It’s not that Boston is an attractive place to live so they attract the best coaches, gm, players, etc.
If he is traded, it will likely only be at the last minute, as the Wild are still in the playoff race in the atrocious West. Hard to explain to fans how you are trading away away your best C(far and away your best since Koivu is out for the season)when you still are in a playoff position. I wish they would trade him, as it's pretty clear to me that they won't be going far in the post season, but GM's aren't wired that way, and they do have ticket sales to worry about.
It could but from reading what our fans have to say around the internet, many of them still seem to solely blame Eric for our futility the last decade rather than the awful GMs who polluted the rosters with pure trash for all those years by not being able to draft, trade for or sign any real impact players until he was already pretty much halfway out the door. I don't think Eric is oblivious to how the majority of the fanbase feels about him.Different coach. Different GM. Most importantly, different competitive environment (re-tooling vs looking to win).
It could work.
Well, that's one way to interpret it.
I think the passive aggressive personality of Minnesota stagnates anyone wanting to move there. I think back to when Moss slid across a cop's car and the media blew it up like he'd done something akin to murder.
And he was booted to where? and why? Boston.
Why? Cuz the fans there don't give 2 S@#$s whether a player does something like that, they demand wins. Minnesota has gotten so used to being the doormat in every league because you know, someone's best friend just had a kid and that person needs to hire that kid's BFF ...
Cities like Boston, NY, LA, Chicago, Detroit - they don't care who your bff is, they care that you win (and that you're mostly a decent human being).
Where'd KG go? Boston; huh, got a trophy there too, right? Big ring?
Trade Staal and give him a chance to win. #Cheers (yeah, 48 years in Duluth, Minneapolis and I don't miss this b.s. at all...)
This is mindless. The Twins have two championships; had this pervasive cultural disease not taken root then? Green moved the North Stars to Dallas with the excuse that Minnesotans did exactly what you're accusing them of never doing. And I assume this Minnesotan tendency toward mediocrity doesn't apply to college hockey.
The idea that team performance is a function of cultural weakness is as ridiculous as it is insulting.
This comment has been overlooked or disregarded but it's incredibly accurate. I spent the first 24 years of my life in Minnesota and moved out of state in 2015. Minnesotans are so content with mediocrity. "The Minnesotan Way".
The owners of teams here have taken advantage of that naivety to line their pockets without having to even come close to producing any championship caliber teams.
As for Eric Staal - let's just hope we can find a sucker to give us a few picks.