Proposal: Trade Proposal Thread: Part 75 (2 Days Left)

[WinterLion]

You need players like Lehkonen during the "rebuild".

I think we are drinking our own kool-aid folks... Lekhonen is replaceable... plus we have loads of wingers

 

[Gravity]

I think we are drinking our own kool-aid folks... Lekhonen is replaceable... plus we have loads of wingers

Thank you. Been saying the same thing repeatedly.

 

[HuGo Sham]

hughes appears to be a tough negotiator. nothing may happen tomorrow unless teams panic and reach out last minute. then you might see wiseman, kulak, Lehkonen - even weber and allen depart.
personally, i'm working, not sticking around for the snoozefest lol

 

[WinterLion]

I hope we manage to move another contract... I don't really care too much which one it is...

 

[FrankMTL]

Surprising Crouse is not traded.
Yet anyway

They can't get rid of everybody, they still have a 5000 seat arena to fill.

 

[Tyson]

Surprising Crouse is not traded.
Yet anyway

Scored his 20th tonight.

 

[First Line]

useless to sign him 1 year , you wont get a better return next year.

Have they cancelled the trade deadline for next year? All the big payouts this year were for pending UFA, it’ll be the same next year.

 

[Harry Kakalovich]

I would hate it if the Habs sign Lehkonen- that would be a huge mistake imo

 

[Kwikwi]

Trading Gally would be a miracle.

Theres bad, struggling, overpaid players in most teams but yeah

 

[JoelWarlord]

Genuinely have no idea why people are apparently so worked up about whether or not we're going to do an entire rebuild at a single deadline. They'll move Lehkonen if someone gives us a Coleman/Goodrow tier offer, and they shouldn't move him otherwise. They'll move Kulak if someone offers a 3rd, and they'll keep him otherwise. Wideman likely has no value so they probably won't bother trading him for a 7th when you still need guys to finish out the season. The only decision here that's in any way consequential is Lehkonen and it's less about whether Hughes/Gorton decide to "keep" Lehkonen and more about whether or not another team meets the price. If they do he'll move, if they don't he won't move, it's that simple.

If you expected that Armia, Petry, Allen/Price, Dvorak, Hoffman, Drouin, Gallagher, Byron, Edmundson, etc were all going to be gone in a single deadline I don't know what to tell you. It's difficult to move that many contracts with term in a short period of time in a cap system. It takes time and a bunch of those guys will move in the summer when other teams have flexibility. Rebuilding is a strategy, it's not a moral penance one must undergo for the hockey gods to denote you as worthy of becoming a contending team. You do not help your team by trading Lehkonen for a 2nd because he's over some arbitrary age limit while being under an arbitrary number of points.

 

[PhysicalHABuse]

Jack McBain was traded to the Coyotes for a 2nd rd pick. I was really hoping we would have traded for him as was rumoured.

 

[Zorba]

Call it what you want, the point is exactly to get rid of those bad contracts and removing players that don’t fit the new mold.

The post I was replying to wanted to fix all of it during one TDL where realistically it might take another year at least to do.

They won’t double down on bad contracts because they can’t get rid of them after one month.

There’s zero chance Gallagher gets traded same goes for Hoffman . Drouin? Good luck , no one wants this guy even for a year Price ? Ya, no He’s going absolutely no where unless you eat half the contract and is healthy It’s not as easy as you think

 

[Tyson]

Jack McBain was traded to the Coyotes for a 2nd rd pick. I was really hoping we would have traded for him as was rumoured.

Be prepared to be underwhelmed

 

[Colezuki]

Jack McBain was traded to the Coyotes for a 2nd rd pick. I was really hoping we would have traded for him as was rumoured.

There was a comment earlier that he didn’t want to come to canada

 

[Tyson]

Man Bergevin f***ed up this franchise with these contracts. He must of purposely went scorched earth knowing he was getting canned.