Connor McFries
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- Jan 9, 2008
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I prefer Russell to Carle, but I don't think we should entertain adding either one. I'm also still baffled why multiple teams apparently value Russel higher than Hamhuis.
take this for what it's worth...through my work, met bob nicholson at the fireaid event yesterday at commonwealth...ad verbatim
"we took a lot of heat today, but just hang tight and wait till tomorrow (i.e. today)"
obviously he didn't want to mention specifics but food for thought
I prefer Russell to Carle, but I don't think we should entertain adding either one. I'm also still baffled why multiple teams apparently value Russel higher than Hamhuis.
I really think people are getting ahead of themselves in not having Fayne on the roster for next season.
There weren't any takers last year for free, there wont be any takers this year. We're not going to just be able to erase his cap hit Besides, he's still a good NHL d-man to soak up some defensive zone start time. Gives Larsson a little more opportunity to evolve an offensive game if he doesn't need to start 70% of his time in the defensive zone like he did in Jersey.
take this for what it's worth...through my work, met bob nicholson at the fireaid event yesterday at commonwealth...ad verbatim
"we took a lot of heat today, but just hang tight and wait till tomorrow (i.e. today)"
obviously he didn't want to mention specifics but food for thought
I really think people are getting ahead of themselves in not having Fayne on the roster for next season.
There weren't any takers last year for free, there wont be any takers this year. We're not going to just be able to erase his cap hit Besides, he's still a good NHL d-man to soak up some defensive zone start time. Gives Larsson a little more opportunity to evolve an offensive game if he doesn't need to start 70% of his time in the defensive zone like he did in Jersey.
If we move RNH for Barrie then I don't get why we did Hall for Larsson when there are plenty of UFA's.
take this for what it's worth...through my work, met bob nicholson at the fireaid event yesterday at commonwealth...ad verbatim
"we took a lot of heat today, but just hang tight and wait till tomorrow (i.e. today)"
obviously he didn't want to mention specifics but food for thought
I really think people are getting ahead of themselves in not having Fayne on the roster for next season.
There weren't any takers last year for free, there wont be any takers this year. We're not going to just be able to erase his cap hit Besides, he's still a good NHL d-man to soak up some defensive zone start time. Gives Larsson a little more opportunity to evolve an offensive game if he doesn't need to start 70% of his time in the defensive zone like he did in Jersey.
If we're moving RNH for Barrie, we should take a run at Darren Helm.
Perfect 3rd line C.
Because he is a young shut down D on a very good contract and there has been a lot of smoke around Hall being an issue in the room.
One thing that no one has mentioned is that the reffing has really boned us and IMO part of that is how Hall would speak to the officials. Hopefully him moving on improves our relationship with the zebras that want to be more of a factor in the game than the players
Let's say RNH goes in a cap-saving trade for Haula/Granlund/Coyle + Dumba, and the team successfully offer sheets another D.
SEKERA ($5.5M) X ($6.5M-7M?)
KLEFBOM ($4.2M) LARSSON ($4.2M)
DAVIDSON ($1.4M) DUMBA ($2.5M?)
What a one-week makeover of that D. You go from having zero high-end right handers under 30 to suddenly three of them- and you still have McDavid, Draisaitl, Eberle, Puljujarvi and maybe Lucic up front. Just an incredible transformation.
God I hope youre right. My mistrust for this isn't personal. Just because of the 'sources' we've had over the last few weeks.
I still say that he is overpaid and if we could flip him for cap space I would in a heartbeat. Larsson-Barrie-Gryba would be a nice mix on the right side IMO.
Man Nicholson was really pumped about buying out Korpi
That's a massive reach.
Glorified Mark Letestu imo (much better skater though).
Need more offense out of a 3rd line C.
Pretty sure that Lucic will be an Oiler in short order. He's no Hall, but he's not chopped liver either. Ideally he costs less than Hall too although I'm not sure that would be the case. If I had my way I'd deal Eberle for Shattenkirk extended or Barrie.
Lucic-McDavid-Puljujarvi
Pouliot/Maroon-RNH-Draisaitl
Still a very solid top 6.