Rumor: Trade rumors and proposals thread: Some witty title about Hamonic edition

[McShogun99]

The Rangers don't have the top end talent that we do. They are deep with players in the 40-60 point range. If they had more high-end talent, I guarantee they'd have a more traditional 2 scoring lines.

The only high end talent we have is Hall and Mcdavid. The rest are potentially high end talent. Yet even with all these skilled players we have no one to support them and do the dirty work. NYR's might be a collection of 40-50 point forwards but they play a gritty game, not s perimeter game like the Oilers. Watching RNH and Ebs cycle on the perimeter for a minute accomplishes almost nothing.

 

[Jet Walters]

The only high end talent we have is Hall and Mcdavid. The rest are potentially high end talent. Yet even with all these skilled players we have no one to support them and do the dirty work. NYR's might be a collection of 40-50 point forwards but they play a gritty game, not s perimeter game like the Oilers. Watching RNH and Ebs cycle on the perimeter for a minute accomplishes almost nothing.

Yup. The way the Oilers are constructed is like an NBA team that has no one over 6'5". Doesn't matter how skilled you are if you have no one who can dominate in the paint. The majority of goals are scored now, especially 5 vs 5, just by getting the puck and bodies to the net and creating chaos. The Oilers forwards prefer to pass the puck into the net.

 

[Mr Positive]

of course Snow is asking a high price...he should start high to see if there's any suckers out there
it'll come down

to me its obvious that Snow just wants to keep Hamonic on the Islanders for as long as he possibly can. He knows that Calgary and Edmonton will not be trading Brodie or Nurse for him, so that's who he asks for. Then he can turn around to Hamonic's camp and tell them that teams are being unreasonable.

It's also highly likely that Hamonic's side leaked this trade request after being quiet about it during the summer, likely because they're getting impatient and maybe question how hard Snow is really trying.

The longer this drags on the worse the Islanders look. From our perspective, we can have some respect for him sticking to his guns, but it would make free agents less likely to sign if the GM doesn't abide by a trade request for good reasons like what Hamonic did. When the RedWings gave Brad Stuart to the Sharks, Stuart was a good defenseman and the RedWings were hurting on D, but they made that trade anyway because there were issues with his daughter that meant he needed to be there. The Redwings didn't get full value back either. Players take notice of things like that. Granted, Hamonic is entering the prime of his career and he's on a sweet heart contract so it's a tougher pill for Snow to swallow than what Stuart was at the time for the Wings. Still though.

 

[Fourier]

Hamonic will probably end up going to Winnipeg in a deal involving Enstrom. They want a dman back, Enstrom is rumored to be on the block. Winnipeg maybe throws in some extra and I'm sure Hamonic wants to go back to Manitoba the most

Enstrom is a 31 year old small offensive defenseman whose offense is not what it use to be. He also has three more years (including this one) at $5.750M. I am not sure how attractive that would be.

 

[Soli]

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