Rubber Biscuit
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Shaw would be a great addition to the 3rd or 4th line.
He's the only guy on that list I'd even entertain the idea of dealing for.
Good luck to Chicago trying to get a good deal on Sharp or Bickell
Shaw would be a great addition to the 3rd or 4th line.
For Hawks these 4 names are likely available
C/W Patrick Sharp (2 yrs at 5.9M)
LW/RW Bryan Bickell (2 yrs at 4M)
LW/RW Kris Versteeg (1 yr at 2.2M)
C/W Andrew Shaw (1 yr at 2M ,,, RFA after)
Not sure if any would fit the B's
Smith + Krug
for
Edler + Kassian
Hmm. Not sure you can project picks that precisely. The Globe & Mail has referred to Burns as a high risk, high reward trick or treat who is unlikely to change. Not encouraging.
Pencil in Krug & Trotman, btw.
i wouldn't trade krejci straight up for kreider that's completely ridiculous
Agreed. But add Dylan McIlrath + a pick...
Really? I'd be more generous. But regardless, there are defensive pieces to be mined in the Rangers organization. They have a weakness at center, and so both teams could be in a position to trade need for need.Is the pick a #1? McIlrath looks like a #6 at best
Sadly none of those solve any of our issues, Seabrook/Pokka would be something we need from the Hawks but they are not available.
Shaw is the closest but he is too expensive to be our 4th line guy in our situation and we have better players on top9.
The Krecji/Smith for Backes/Oshie deal is interesting but I can't see either team doing it. Just moving pieces for the sake of moving pieces. Maybe the new GM here would do it if he isn't a Krecji guy but I can't see Armstrong making that deal. They are going to have a tough time moving Smith's contract. It is in many ways worse than Kelly's.
I would take Shaw over Smith any day. Little loss of production and brings an edge. He also competes every night something that cannot be said for Reilly Smith.
He's the only guy on that list I'd even entertain the idea of dealing for.
Good luck to Chicago trying to get a good deal on Sharp or Bickell
1st he takes stupid penalties, I'm okay with Marchand, we were 22nd in scoring and adding shaw into our top9 wouldn't help us at all, we need a stronger top9 than that.
Shaw has long strecthes were he does nothing. I want Smith gone but we need someone who can help our scoring/make us a stronger team.
The Krecji/Smith for Backes/Oshie deal is interesting but I can't see either team doing it. Just moving pieces for the sake of moving pieces. Maybe the new GM here would do it if he isn't a Krecji guy but I can't see Armstrong making that deal. They are going to have a tough time moving Smith's contract. It is in many ways worse than Kelly's.
Versteeg?
61 GP with 14 goals + 20 assists for 35 pts and a +11 this season
Would have had 20 G / 45-50 pt season if not for injury
At 2.2M for only 1 more year cost wise he isn't hard to fit on your cap (Though to be fair I am not 100% sure what your cap situation looks like)
Yeah, I would think Boston would need to add a sweetner for that deal. Unless St. Louis felt that Krejci was a significant enough upgrade over Backes; which is debatable. Even then, like you said, its just swapping players to try to shake up things.
I do really like the trade for Boston though; even with something added. Put Connolly with Bergeron & Marchand and have another top line of Lucic, Backes, and Oshie. A lot more bang in that top 6.
Well I've been watching your games and you know as well that he has been a healthy scratch player since his injury, I'm glad they finally gave TT a shot. Also I don't like his effort level, lots of nights you barely know he is playing.
We need someone who can be better than Smith, help us to be contenders, lucic-krecji-eriksson-marchand-bergeron-connolly-spooner-pasta would all be ahead of him. We need top talent, we have enough 3rd liners. (Our bottom 6 needs to get cheaper, so we could add more talent for once).
It is true that towards end of year Steeger got his head stuck up his ### and has yet to get it out
But for a good chunk of year he was playing great. Not sure why Steeger seems to do this but yeah he can be streaky and its great to see TT out there and getting experience
Anyway Sharp could fit under your cap? That would be top 6 scoring talent B's could use along with speed
Sharp had bad regular season but seems to have found his game in this years playoffs
Getting Backes for Krecji would make us weaker, older and again would not help our scoring at all.
Backes is only a year and a half older than Krejci, way more physical, and has scored more goals than Krejci almost every year since they started their careers.
Oshie is an upgrade over Smith in both points and physicality.
We save nearly 2.5 million in cap space in that swap.
That trade is a win all around for us. A better question is why St. Louis would do it? Unless they felt that Krejci would be a breakout offensive star in their system; or we added a piece that was significant to make it worth a shake up for both teams. Could only be better if we can acquire the rights for Sobotka too.