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Murray has gone on record as saying that he wants to acquire a power forward who is feisty, can pot a few goals, and has enough game to play in the top 6, preferably with Spezza. I would think one who shoots left would be ideal. Easier said than done!
It seems to me that we also know that ideally he'd like to do another quantity for quality deal if possible. While many of us are reluctant to have him resign Phillips, that's probably exactly what's going to happen, so as I see it the package he would be most likely to dangle to acquire said player would be something like this:
An expendable NHL winger (think Condra, Conacher, or Greening if anybody wants to take on his contract)
A young NHL caliber defenseman (preferably left shooting) with some upside (think Weircioch, Boroweicki, Claesson, or Gryba)
A scoring forward prospect that probably doesn't have a great shot of cracking our top 6 (think Dacosta, Hoffman, Schneider, Prince, Petersson, etc.)
Maybe a 2nd or 3rd round draft choice.
While I do think that could be a reasonably attractive package for a rebuilding team, I'm not sure every team would be interested in a trade like that, especially not a contending team at the trade deadline.
Assuming Murray is patient and takes a longer term view, which top 6 wingers do you think might reasonably be obtained for a package like that some time between now and the 2015 draft and which would you like to see Murray target?
It seems to me that we also know that ideally he'd like to do another quantity for quality deal if possible. While many of us are reluctant to have him resign Phillips, that's probably exactly what's going to happen, so as I see it the package he would be most likely to dangle to acquire said player would be something like this:
An expendable NHL winger (think Condra, Conacher, or Greening if anybody wants to take on his contract)
A young NHL caliber defenseman (preferably left shooting) with some upside (think Weircioch, Boroweicki, Claesson, or Gryba)
A scoring forward prospect that probably doesn't have a great shot of cracking our top 6 (think Dacosta, Hoffman, Schneider, Prince, Petersson, etc.)
Maybe a 2nd or 3rd round draft choice.
While I do think that could be a reasonably attractive package for a rebuilding team, I'm not sure every team would be interested in a trade like that, especially not a contending team at the trade deadline.
Assuming Murray is patient and takes a longer term view, which top 6 wingers do you think might reasonably be obtained for a package like that some time between now and the 2015 draft and which would you like to see Murray target?
