A 3rd rounder for Stalberg? Price for Vrbata just increased.
So if some team offers a first for Vrbata, but Shane Doan requests a trade what do you do?
Only one retention spot left right?
So if some team offers a first for Vrbata, but Shane Doan requests a trade what do you do?
Only one retention spot left right?
Accommodate Doan. I'm sure I'm in the minority but I think he's earned the right to decide if he wants to get traded or not pretty much whenever he wants.
Accommodate Doan. I'm sure I'm in the minority but I think he's earned the right to decide if he wants to get traded or not pretty much whenever he wants.
I agree.
Take the first.
I'm all for letting him write his ticket out of town at the expense of the return on his deal (Ie. Doan for 7th rndr and/or FC) if that is his desire.
No way I turn down a 1st rounder and cancel another deal to accommodate him leaving. Not the same thing.
Short of straight up adding value to him or taking negative value, I'd accommodate him, even in the above situation. He's done and meant so much for this franchise he deserves it IMO.
Fair enough, and for literally any other player in franchise history I agree, just not Doan.Nope. Not giving up a first so I can also pay someone to let Shane Doan play there. Taking a way a deal for a 1st and retaining IS negative value. I'd give him away for nothing, but I'm not crippling other aspects of roster management to accommodate him. Especially to the tune of a 1st.
Waiting until the very last moment is insulting to the franchise when you're the captain and a grown ass man with a family.
I think it would take them trading Smith to get him to want to leave and we know that's not happening.
Highly unlikely anyone offers a first for Vrbata and I also don't think Doan gets traded.
Accommodate Doan. I'm sure I'm in the minority but I think he's earned the right to decide if he wants to get traded or not pretty much whenever he wants.
I agree.
Highly unlikely anyone offers a first for Vrbata and I also don't think Doan gets traded.
Any interest in Sobotka (blues) or Nikushkin? Both have to be protected despite being in KHL. Cost is pennies on the dollar prior to expansion.