Rumor: Islanders interested in Duchene. Price too high

[Givememoneyback]

As much as the Isles offense has fallen short beyond Tavares, trading Leddy without a decent d-man coming back makes them a worse team.

 

[PAZ]

Strome has about as much value as Grigorenko.

 

[ZiGOODejad]

As much as the Isles offense has fallen short beyond Tavares, trading Leddy without a decent d-man coming back makes them a worse team.

how much worse

 

[Fazkovsky]

who is better, hanzal or barzal?

ITs more of a name contest

 

[cgf]

Okay. That doesn't have much to do Zadorov, but alright.

Zads is coming along wonderfully, what does he have to do with a Duchene trade? The Avs feel about him the way you guys do Nurse, doesn't mean both teams don't still want to add to their defense.

 

[LeapOnOver]

I still don't understand the point of Hamonic in any Duchene to Isles package.

1)Colorado already have a 1-2 punch of RHD with Johnson+Barrie.

2)Hamonic is critical to anything the Islanders would hope to do in the next couple years as he's the anchor of their d-corps. Without him, they're suddenly in the market for a stud RH matchup defenceman...which is extremely costly, if not downright impossible to trade for. And you're not winning **** without a squared away defence. So why trade for a "now" piece like Duchene if you're just going to **** up your defence corps real bad?

de Haan has become equally as good as Hamonic, if not more so. Pelech has looked very dependable in all his stints with the big club. I feel he's more than ready. Hamonic is expendable at this point imo.