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I somehow feel like it's more likely to be Rask or Rinne for the same reasons you've made for Korpisalo. Not much smoke connecting those guys to Minny though.
Rumor: Potential Goalie to Minnesota in the "next few days"
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I somehow feel like it's more likely to be Rask or Rinne for the same reasons you've made for Korpisalo. Not much smoke connecting those guys to Minny though.
I think any serviceable goalie with short term that's being traded by a "motivated" team is probably worth looking at for Minnesota, and Rask qualifies. Rinne... I'm less sure about these days.
Either way, the goal here shouldn't be to make a huge investment and solve our goaltending long term. We should just be trying to upgrade from Dubnyk to league-average and give Kahkonen a route to play himself into a starter role if he can. If he can't you reevaluate after a year and see where to go next, but paying for Suter/Spurgeon/Brodin so that you can also give up premium assets and/or massive cap space for a goalie makes little sense.
Schultz is a UFA so maybe you should know something about the teams before throwing a trade offer out there.
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I am, the problem is for the life of me I don't know what I'd be willing to give up yet. the cap hit is fine, I'm still concerned with age though.
You can have Varlamov if he waives his NTC.
Just do it before Friday so NYI can re-sign Greiss.
Just do it before Friday so NYI can re-sign Greiss.
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In another thread, my offer involves asking for 2 2nd round picks for 3.5M Fleury.
Not sure if that is too high. Detroit would be willing to add 3rd or 2nd round picks to get a higher pick... just something to think about.
In regards to age... Fleury obviously is getting near the end of his career, so you wont have him for more than 4-5 years at best. So he is likely a quality (semi quality?) starter for 2 years. And at 3.5M gives you room to make other deals.
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He belongs in Seattle, so they can play up the "Release the Kahkonen" angle.
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If a team like Detroit is going to retain cap for Fleury I'd expect Vegas to be the one paying the most to get rid of him since they rid his cap completely.
A trade I saw on the Wild boards went:
(VGK) Flower + 1st <--> Detroit future considerations
(DET) Flower 50% <--> 3rd from Minnesota.
Is a 1st and a 3rd enough for Detroit for 50% of the cap?
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One of the reasons the wild shouldnt be trading picks to acquire any current NHL'er -expansion- this is gonna be a short season. Let kahkonen have a kick at the can and protect him, and potentially trade some guys u won't be able to protect for picks/prospects. Then when expansion is over add guys of value and your younger guys who have had time to develop.
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Get Lundqvist eh. His best friend Zucc is already there, some swedes and IIRC a lot of swedes/people with swedish heritage lives there.
It's somewhat unrealistic because i think he'd prefer a contending team. At the same time in Minnesota he'd probably be #1 and he wants to play. Also aforementioned stuff like Zuccarello.
It's somewhat unrealistic because i think he'd prefer a contending team. At the same time in Minnesota he'd probably be #1 and he wants to play. Also aforementioned stuff like Zuccarello.
MN doesn't want to be paying an aging goalie for his past glories. They could use a reasonably priced, reasonably competent G to pair with Kahkonen on a short term contract. With the goalie market being saturated, there is no need for them to overpay for said help, and might actually get paid to take a goalie. I would think that Rask, Kuemper, Crawford and Lundquist would be profoundly disinterested in coming to MN. Fluery and Murray possible fits due to previous relationship with Guerin. Andersen possibly a fit. Demko not so much.
I would hope that Guerin would be predatory, and take advantage of a team's desperation to shed cap, rather than take the perfect goalie for next year, which might well be a shortened, dog's breakfast of a season anyway, and one in which MN will not be a contender. The role of the acquired goalie is to be a good 1A with Kahkonen, so he he doesn't get overworked and gets a good chance at showing if he can be the goalie of the future for the Wild.
I would hope that Guerin would be predatory, and take advantage of a team's desperation to shed cap, rather than take the perfect goalie for next year, which might well be a shortened, dog's breakfast of a season anyway, and one in which MN will not be a contender. The role of the acquired goalie is to be a good 1A with Kahkonen, so he he doesn't get overworked and gets a good chance at showing if he can be the goalie of the future for the Wild.
Its obviously Matt Murray....appears Blackhawks were fromt runners now look likes minny again.. billy G wanted murray... pens and wild already made a deal... stay tuned.
no chance on Murray being the goalie we trade for. He want's multiple years and high dollars so i don't see Billy making that trade. If Murray would be willing to extend with something like 4 yrs/4.5 AAV type contract with us then I would be onboard with that but I get the sense Murray wants closer to 6m AAV.
@wintersej I am simply talking about having a guy on the team who doesn't want to be there, when part of the job description is to be a mentor for Kahkonen.
