GDT: Trade deadline 2021

[CapitalsCupReality]

Why would you want to trade Jensen? He's been good.

Because one good stretch of playing better is probably all he’s capable of?

The guy is fools gold on ice to me.


And it’s not me wanting to trade him....see GMBM.

 

[Carlzner]

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Jensen doesn't really belong on that list.

Fools gold...Fully expect him to return to pumpkin form. Caps would love to unload any of those 3.

 

[Langway]

So, if Laughton is indeed staying, non-rentals or just value depth? Sure seems like they were rebuffed on perhaps both Foligno and Hall. Can something significant shake loose? It's Filip Forsberg SZN.

 

[crab]

Jensen could easily be traded and net a positive return.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Jensen could easily be traded and net a positive return.

like a 3rd round pick? Caps would take it and run lol....

 

[Ovie's Neighbor]

like a 3rd round pick? Caps would take it and run lol....

Well they would need someone to fill his spot and I trust Jensen more than TVR

 

[HecticGlow]

Jensen is ok. Hagelin and Dillon are overpaid.

Panik is a PTO player, way overpaid. If Panik was fairly priced, he would not have cleared waivers. He’s awful.

I don’t think for a moment GMBM would’ve paid Hagelin what he did if he’d known Hags would be on the fourth line by year 2 of 4. But Hags was quite obviously a fourth liner who still had the wheels and defensive prowess to hang with more skilled players if called on (though not as a producer). Remember in 2019 when we had Hagelin as our 2LW in playoff games?

If Panik had been what GMBM promised, his $2.75million would be about right. But he’s been none of those things, and I suspect Mac is finding it’s going to be expensive to get someone to buy 2 years of his contract in this economy.

Dillon has got a lot of value – physicality, penalty killing, decent wheels, and clearly a liked and vocal guy in the room. But it’s no secret he isn’t the smartest or most gaffe-proof player, and I think Mac underestimated how problematic that could be.

Jensen you’d only move for cap reasons, if you can get back something far more valuable than what you lose. His skating and steadiness are a welcome asset on this team right now.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

So, if Laughton is indeed staying, non-rentals or just value depth? Sure seems like they were rebuffed on perhaps both Foligno and Hall. Can something significant shake loose? It's Filip Forsberg SZN.

A core deal of Vrana for FF.....imagine the heads imploding lol....

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Well they would need someone to fill his spot and I trust Jensen more than TVR

they didn’t extend TVR for kicks.....

 

[twabby]

Please no depth moves. Go big or don’t do anything.

 

[HecticGlow]

I don’t understand why more bubble/tanking teams and their UFAs don’t put an agreement in the draw and send the guy to a playoff team for a few months? If there’s genuine interest in continuing the relationship, why not let the guy go chase a cup and gain an asset or two in the meantime? Especially in an expansion year, when you risk having to protect or lose them after extending them anyway.

 

[Misery74]

Do we think Rakell shakes loose? I think he will be traded today.

 

[Ovechkins Wodka]

Why do people want the junk on the trade block so bad? Hall for a 2nd would have been OK but he didnt want to come here and everyone left kindof sucks.

 

[txpd]

Starting to take this personally.

Nothing there. Big deal

 

[TheLegendOfPatPeake]

Please no depth moves. Go big or don’t do anything.

If the Caps lose a center they are toast. They have to go out and get a depth center.

 

[HecticGlow]

Some nostalgia for you all:

 

[AlexBrovechkin8]

 

[AZ Caps Fan]

I'd love to see Athanasiou withe Caps. Kings fans really like him and he has wheels.

 

[twabby]

If the Caps lose a center they are toast. They have to go out and get a depth center.

That depth center is Connor McMichael. Or Pinho or whoever else is in the system.. Or Oshie for a few shifts. Or just double-shift all your good players.

Depth centers like Luke Glendening are really bad! And the team is still screwed if one of their centers goes down if someone like Glendening is signed.

 

[HecticGlow]

Look forward to the customary 'I mean of course we did our due diligence on a couple of possibilities, but I think we'd already done our deadline shopping in the off-season when we added Chara, Dillon, Schultz, Sheary and Sprong.'

 

[TheLegendOfPatPeake]

For folks on here who seem to be concerned about using 1st round picks, I am genuinely curious why you are so concerned with using those to acquire a player. Any player the caps draft this summer or next year isn't going to help this current core take another run. Why are you even thinking about what the caps will be four or five year from now? They are going to suck in the future and there is no avoiding it. I am asking because I don't get the concern, that being said, I wouldn't give them away but I also wouldn't be afraid to use them.

 

[TheLegendOfPatPeake]

That depth center is Connor McMichael. Or Pinho or whoever else. Or Oshie for a few shifts.

Depth centers like Luke Glendening are really bad! And the team is still screwed if one of their centers goes down if someone like Glendening is signed.

Did you not see Pinho in the bubble last year, and/or at the beginning of this year? That is not a viable option.

 

[Langway]

 

[HecticGlow]

That depth center is Connor McMichael. Or Pinho or whoever else.

Depth centers like Luke Glendening are really bad!

But a guy like Laughton, if he could have been had, would have been good. McMichael clearly isn't an NHLer yet, I'm not sure Pinho will ever be one. I expected him to at least find another Boyd/Stephenson-like taxi squad tweener, if not an every day guy.