Sportsnet: Power Rankings: Your Team’s Best Deadline Trade Chip Edition

[Habernack]

This list is both funny/entertaining and fairly accurate in most cases. Short and sweet for each team. Did someone here write this?

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/...rade-deadline-bait-chips-prospects-picks-ufa/

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[BatVader]

If it was just Sergachev+2nd for Duchene, Bergevin should do that in a heartbeat.

 

[Balthazar]

If it was just Sergachev+2nd for Duchene, Bergevin should do that in a heartbeat.

Yeah, Sakic isn't trading Duchene for a question mark and a 2nd rounder in a bad draft. Nor should he trade him straight up for Galchenyuk.

AVS don't need to trade Matt Duchene. Bad article overall.

 

[Ginu]

Ya Bergevin isn't trading Sergachev, he's been clear. And definitely not just Sergachev + 2nd. It doesn't work cap wise. It would need to be Desharnais/Plekanec + Julssen + 1st + any other prospects not named Sergachev. Duchene may be a center but, just like Galchenyuk, is potentially more of a winger than a center. Montreal is interested but Sergachev isn't an option.

 

[Ncit3]

Ya Bergevin isn't trading Sergachev, he's been clear. And definitely not just Sergachev + 2nd. It doesn't work cap wise. It would need to be Desharnais/Plekanec + Julssen + 1st + any other prospects not named Sergachev. Duchene may be a center but, just like Galchenyuk, is potentially more of a winger than a center. Montreal is interested but Sergachev isn't an option.

How is one of the best faceoff players in the league "potentially more of a winger"?

 

[Alluckks]

I don't really understand how the teams are ranked but okay...

Rangers: The writer mentions Oscar Lindberg and Jesper Fast as trade bait (hardly any value, would be throw ins), and then brings up Kevin Hayes in the same breath. Uhhhhh, okay...

 

[ThatGuy22]

Ya Bergevin isn't trading Sergachev, he's been clear. And definitely not just Sergachev + 2nd. It doesn't work cap wise. It would need to be Desharnais/Plekanec + Julssen + 1st + any other prospects not named Sergachev. Duchene may be a center but, just like Galchenyuk, is potentially more of a winger than a center. Montreal is interested but Sergachev isn't an option.

Like he was clear when he wasn't trading PK? Until the next week that is.

GMs aren't doing something, until they are. Name of the game.

 

[CrypTic]

The Sharks blurb is laughable. We need goal scorers. Our backup goaltender has a .934 sv% (best among all goalies with > 4 games) and 1.95 GAA (best among all goalies with >4 games) but if Doug Wilson does anything, he's trading prospects to grab a backup goalie? That's about the last position he should worry about.

 

[pezcore]

the best was Arizona with the zoolander reference

 

[Habernack]

the best was Arizona with the zoolander reference

Hanzal, so hot right now.

 

[Tripod]

How is one of the best faceoff players in the league "potentially more of a winger"?

Because being a C is much more than taking a FO?

 

[CrypTic]

How is one of the best faceoff players in the league "potentially more of a winger"?

Maybe it's bc I'm a Sharks fan but I don't think of centers as being correlated with taking faceoffs. Both Pavelski and Hertl, who were Thornton's typical wingers, were better than Thornton at FOs last season. Pavs, who's been a winger for years, takes the most faceoffs. For quite a while Ward, who never plays center, was one of our best at FOs but he's not now. (Still better than Couture and about the same as Tierney.) Couture, who always plays center, is one of our worst face-off guys (the worst this season) while Marleau, who plays more at wing, is above average.

You have your best FO guy take face-offs (or, e.g., based on handedness) whether he's a center of a winger.

 

[Mad Brills*]

The writer, is a decent source.