I would offer Bishop, Weirdcrotch, Zibanejad for Yandle
Phoenix gets a good fill-in and backup in Bishop, a young roster player with potential to replace Yandle, and our best prospect as payment for the upgrade from Weircioch to Yandle. We get an excellent defenseman and our top 4 would be set in stone for forever pretty much.
or
Bishop, Stone for Rundblad
Phoenix gets Bishop whose value is about a 2nd rounder, and Stone is the price to bump the value up to that of a mid first round pick, which is where Rundblad was valued before.
I would offer Bishop, Weirdcrotch, Zibanejad for Yandle
Phoenix gets a good fill-in and backup in Bishop, a young roster player with potential to replace Yandle, and our best prospect as payment for the upgrade from Weircioch to Yandle. We get an excellent defenseman and our top 4 would be set in stone for forever pretty much.
or
Bishop, Stone for Rundblad
Phoenix gets Bishop whose value is about a 2nd rounder, and Stone is the price to bump the value up to that of a mid first round pick, which is where Rundblad was valued before.
Yandle is WAY underrated on here. Dude almost had 60 points two years ago.
Brian Lee played 15:13 & 13:25 in his two games in Tampa and is a -1 and took 4 penalties, he is already been a healthy scratch - anybody who misses him now is in denial.
according to everyone everybody is way underrated on here.
Sometimes Criminally...
It just these trades that people are offering with the biggest piece being Da Costa.
Who the hell accepts that?
It just these trades that people are offering with the biggest piece being Da Costa.
Who the hell accepts that?
I would offer Bishop, Weirdcrotch, Zibanejad for Yandle
Phoenix gets a good fill-in and backup in Bishop, a young roster player with potential to replace Yandle, and our best prospect as payment for the upgrade from Weircioch to Yandle. We get an excellent defenseman and our top 4 would be set in stone for forever pretty much.
or
Bishop, Stone for Rundblad
Phoenix gets Bishop whose value is about a 2nd rounder, and Stone is the price to bump the value up to that of a mid first round pick, which is where Rundblad was valued before.
It just these trades that people are offering with the biggest piece being Da Costa.
Who the hell accepts that?
You don't know who DaCosta is do you. Im not saying he's amazing but you're underrating him. Our best player in Binhamton. 2nd line center potential and is not far from it.
EDIT: Never seen Bennys post. We on da same boat g.
count me on the "dacosta is the most underrated player in binghamton" bandwagon!
He would sure be useful up in Ottawa right now playing on the 2nd line instead of having to slot in Daugavins imo.
You could say the same thing about half of the Bingo roster
He would sure be useful up in Ottawa right now playing on the 2nd line instead of having to slot in Daugavins imo.
Da Costa is a centre though, and Daugavins was far from bad in his role last year.
I really like the way Da Costa has played in Bingo, but he just has no future on this team. Looking down the middle Spezza and Turris aren't going anywhere for obvious reasons. Smith brings some valuable toughness, and has 5 years left on his contract anyways. While JOB is one of our better penalty killers (leads forwards in SH TOI per game, and overall) and plays well enough 5 on 5 to have the roster spot. If Spezza or Turris got injured then (not now, but in the future) Zibanejad could take their spot even though he will likely be playing wing. If Smith or JOB got injured then Regin could take their spot. Even if Da Costa moved to wing there likely won't be room in the top 6, and unless our other prospects do nothing, then there might not even be a spot on the 3rd line.
We might as well try and package Da Costa with Bishop
This is purely based on your preferences though. If Turris were to get injured I'd have to think Da Costa would be the next best thing. And I'm sure he can adjust to the wing relatively well and can slot in on any of the 4 lines. He just needs to keep getting a bit stronger and he'll definitely have a future with the big club.
Lee was never and will never will be as good as Staal. Lee was a giant reach at #9. Anyone with a copy of the Hockey News' draft edition could have made a better pick than the Sens there. Mucks only employed 3 amateur scouts back then...
Oh how I wish there was a like button on this forum.