Speculation: Trade and Free Agency Talk - LIII
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Dr Jan Itor
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We will not actually do 99.9% of what will be discussed in this thread.
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I don’t love Monahan but I just want Guerin to take a chance on any center with upside. It’s worked out recently for other teams. See Sam Bennet, Trocheck, Lindholm, etc.
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is malkin injured right now?
Maybe we can make a package with rask and tempt them with giving addison back+ for a retained malkin. Might not end up resigning him, but would give us a better shot this year if we wanna take it.
Maybe we can make a package with rask and tempt them with giving addison back+ for a retained malkin. Might not end up resigning him, but would give us a better shot this year if we wanna take it.
If the price is something like Greenway and Rask + prospect for Monahan then I'm all for it.
I think 3 games already. I would love to have Soucy back, and I think he would love to be back.
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He's been largely ineffective at his current role playing with McGinn and Aston-Reese, and when Crosby & Malkin return, he'll likely end up on the fourth line or on the wing. I understand what you're trying to do, but he's not an upgrade.
And here it is with Crosby. Still playing C but we’ll see what happens
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Why not just let the team do what it will, and if that means missing playoffs, then so be it, instead of fighting tooth and nail to get knocked out in the first round?
Team clearly isn't a contender, what's the point of paying futures to slightly upgrade it?
Team clearly isn't a contender, what's the point of paying futures to slightly upgrade it?
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Yeah, whatever one thinks about this team's strengths and weaknesses they're performing well within expectations right now. If management really went into this season expecting more from this roster than what they're seeing... that'd be worrying.
The time to address the centers was this summer and they've instead opted to develop from within. Which is fine, but settle in because it's not going be a fast process.
Especially now that we can scratch off Khovanov from the list. We have Rossi and Marat and that's about it to be top 6 centers (if they really think Marat is going to be a center in the NHL).
Also scratch Eichel off the list. Wild are probably going to be playing against him for the next decade when he ends up in LV
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Except its not Merril and Benn vs Soucy and Cole. Its Kulikov and X vs Soucy and Cole. Kulikov is the best player in this scenario imo.
X should be Addison but could also be Benn/Merril.
I'll say this; given the contracts given out to defensemen, Guerin actually doesn't look to bad.
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Guerin giving Spurgeon a terrible contract is what started the trend of overpaying defensemen
Erik Karlsson and Vlasic says hi.
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You can argue that Burns deserved his contract, partly for services rendered. That's the argument for giving a "good soldier' like Spurgeon the contract he got, when he had done yeoman's service for the team and was underpaid previously.
That's part of my problem with the Kaprizov contract. He spent years doing everything he could to not play for the Wild, then demanded big money after only 55 gp.
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Especially with the on ice results since. Not saying he's been abysmal, but sure isn't playing like he was before it and for sure isn't coming close to living up to it.
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