Really? But our front office is so boring and has no guts.…If we come out of this deadline without getting a top six winger who’s good enough to warrant giving up a first round pick and one of our better prospects (cough, not Rakell) then Hextall has failed the club…so far I see nothing that indicates he will be trading for anything than another JJ clone in Hagg….I’ll be writing emails to Jim Rutherford begging him to return if we don’t get a top notch forward
I don't know that the FO has no guts. I think they're screwed cap-wise, they have no real valuable assets to land a significant player, and they're kinda f***ed as far as longer-term plans until they know for sure what's going on with Geno and Letang (Rust is 100% gone imo, unless Letang walks, in which case, who gives a f*** about Rust).
-edit- Outside of unrealistic options like DeBrincat, I don't really give a f*** about any of the names available. Bertuzzi's value is inflated like crazy because of what I'd say is an extreme outlier season for him. Garland's yet another smaller player who's probably gonna be a 40-50pt middle-6 guy making $5 million AAV. Boeser's gonna be re-signed, or at least the Canucks are trying. Ditto for JT Miller, who is way out of our price range anyway imo. Schenn sucks, imo. A backup doesn't really matter because if Jarry falters, is fatigued or goes down to injury, no guy we're gonna land is gonna make a difference and save the season in that scenario.
In short; Get ready for another "prices didn't make sense for us to make a move, our deadline acquisition is a healthy Jason Zucker, we like where our team is at and didn't feel the need to make any moves" presser.
