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Kris King's Ghost
That's no excuse.
Gorton and company needed to go into Tampa - Tom Hanks, Vin Diesel, and Tom Sizemore style.
TDL 2018: Saving Mikhail Sergachev
That's no excuse.
I think we are all forgetting the expansion draft as well..
I mean we are pretty much guaranteed to lose either Lemieux or DeAngelo right?
Neither Shestorksin or Georgieov can be claimed correct?
Just take my $14.Gorton and company needed to go into Tampa - Tom Hanks, Vin Diesel, and Tom Sizemore style.
TDL 2018: Saving Mikhail Sergachev
Then McDonagh shouldn't have been available to the Lightning
Shestyorkin exempt
Georgiev protected
Lundqvist UFA
On defense, we protect Skjei, Trouba + 1 more. Probably DeAngelo. Fox exempt, Smith and Staal UFA
On offense, we protect 7. Panarin, Zibanejad, Buchnevich, Howden, Chytil, Andersson maybe?
Just take my $14.
Shestyorkin exempt
Georgiev protected
Lundqvist UFA
On defense, we protect Skjei, Trouba + 1 more. Probably DeAngelo. Fox exempt, Smith and Staal UFA
On offense, we protect 7. Panarin, Zibanejad, Buchnevich, Howden, Chytil, Andersson maybe?
Sure. We just saw the Knights trade their prized defensive prospect in Erik Brannstrom for Mark Stone. At the very least I could envision something like McDonagh for Sergachev. A top-pair guy for a stud young prospect? I think that's totally fair given that the Lightning were going for it all. Even McDonagh + Miller for Sergachev is a fairer deal than what New York actually got. It never seemed like Hajek nor Howden were considered top prospects with the Lightning and if you're going to trade for a top-pair defenseman and a top-6 F, you expect to be giving a top prospect.
I remember it was reported afterwards that Hajek was a deal-breaker. Why a guy with limited offensive skills and average skating/mobility was a deal-breaker is beyond me. Hajek's a fine player, but he's never going to be a top-pair guy. And in regard to Howden, Howden is a limited offensive player as well, but what also confused me at the time were the comparisons between Howden and Lias. People were saying that it seemed redundant to have two guys who "max out" as middle-6 Centers.
Like except you gotta leave Brady unprotected as we should HOPE one of the LD kids steps up and in before then.
Why? Who do you want to protect instead? Hajek?
See, this is where I grow concerned (and a little annoyed).
There's plenty of factual, real world stuff to be unhappy about. But we have to stop making up our own scenarios in our head, taking them as fact, and then lamenting them.
Sergachev was never available, nor were some of the other hypothetical deals that we sometimes fixate on.
That Tampa deal especially feels like we just randomly insert the names of players we really like into a scenario in which they were never on the table.
IMHO his straight lines style could work with someone else bringing creativity into play. Strome got enough hockey sense to be in involved and in the right place with higher-end players. Not enough offense to be on the 1st line but might be just enough for the 2nd.
Would Sergachev been part of the Miller for Names trade, or McDonagh for picks/prospects trade? I can never tell which trades people are talking about
/ducks
Fast is a good player for what he is. I would love for the Rangers to sign him again at a cap hit very reasonable to what he has now and not flip him for a 4th or some bull****.
The problem is that it’s still Hawaii out there when Strome hits the ice. It’s Hawaii when Ziba and Panarin tries to be too cute.
Keep up the bad work. Play the kids and lose. Get another 1st OA. Rinse repeat.
Fast has been crap for a long time, but the last couple of games we have seen the old Jesper. He has been a top 5 forward for us.
Fast has been crap for a long time, but the last couple of games we have seen the old Jesper. He has been a top 5 forward for us.
Fast is my sleeper for providing a better return than some might think at the deadline.
If he's on his game, he's exactly the type of player teams are looking to add for the playoffs.
You might have a team that is willing to part with nice B-level prospect for him.
Has it been confirmed that Miller/Names was a 1-for-1 swap? Or was it part of the entire deal? I thought it was the latter.