With the way this team is playing it would be hard to "unload" Parise's contract if he did not have previous years to show case how good he really is.
Zucker scoring or not scoring is not a problem with me. No one is doing anything special.
If we do trade Zucker is our hope to get older and slower? Zucker is nothing special at this point. At soon to be 22 he has some room/time to grow. He is a transition on the fly player. Cullen was the best thing to happen to Zucker. He does not fit with any center we have, not totally familar with Iowa, but maybe not in our entire system.
The only trade i see is getting rid of Heatley. He is off the books next year any way. Why package a guy luke Zucker for most likely a simular aged player to Heatley with more years left on a bad contract. Brian Cambpell.
To get a Vanek it would take Healty + a 1st, Zucker and Dumba? Then you re-sign Vanek and have less to throw at Granlund, Brodin, Coyle in the future. A lot of money tied up in Suter, Parise, Vanek, Pommer for a long time. If it is a rental why lose three pieces of the future.
On his own i see Zucker getting us nothing special to even bother a show case.
Zucker has the work ethic to become a speedy third line defensive pest that will make you pay in transition. I'll keep him around unless its a package deal that brings us something special. But anohter prospect from another team in a simular situtaion where they cannot break through but are not written off yet. I do not want that.
