Salary Cap: What's the Maatta? Trade Prices too high? The Plotnikov thickens! Oh, Pou...liot.

[Cherpak]

Click link. I put parentheses to save that click for you. Mackie said it was Ward, per source.

Damn. In what world is Ward a higher UFA than Frolik?? Jesus this UFA crop sucks ass...

 

[Jules Winnfield]

it feels truly awful to have a loose cannon / senile GM at the controls. say what you will about Shero, there was at least the feeling he could pull off a heist. there's zippy chance GMJR makes a good bargain for whatever deal gets made.

Yep no ****. Shero was a shrewd trade negotiator. He knew his **** and did it well with trades.

His drafting was the equivalent of JR however.

 

[thecore]

I'd be okay with a 3 year, $3.25 deal for Ward. No doubt he can get more, but he's worth that as a 2/3 tweener for us because we are so damn soft otherwise. And its still a raise. Not going anywhere near the 4 X 4. I'm sure he could get that from someone.

 

[xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

If we can swing deals for Kessel and Marchand, we'd have completely fixed the top six once and for all.

I hope we can do it, but I doubt we even try. We're gonna end up with like Joel Ward and Marty St. Louis, and I'm just gonna ****ing vomitcry myself to sleep.

 

[penguins2946*]

Eklund is saying Kessel to Pittsburgh is close. He did nail the Lucic trade to LA before anyone today...

 

[Asuna]

Eklund is saying Kessel to Pittsburgh is close. He did nail the Lucic trade to LA before anyone today...

Oh now you want to believe Eklund?

 

[pensfan71]

Eklund is saying Kessel to Pittsburgh is close. He did nail the Lucic trade to LA before anyone today...

Let's go with that means it won't happen...

 

[JRS91]

I know this may be laughed at, but if Sutter is moved, and Mike Richards is bought-out, I honestly wouldn't mind a one-year deal for Richards.

He may not be the player he used to be, but I still think he'd be a better option than Spaling, who'd be a lateral move from Sutter.

 

[AR5]

Eklund is saying Kessel to Pittsburgh is close. He did nail the Lucic trade to LA before anyone today...

When did he say this? He had this up an hour ago.

Edit: NVM found it.

Way too vague. Plus EK got lucky on Lucic I think. He has 100 informants. Prolly 2 of them are real.

 

[M0NTY26]

Bitter enemies? Is this a movie?

This legit made me

 

[Kristopher Letang]

I know this may be laughed at, but if Sutter is moved, and Mike Richards is bought-out, I honestly wouldn't mind a one-year deal for Richards.

He may not be the player he used to be, but I still think he'd be a better option than Spaling, who'd be a lateral move from Sutter.

Set the bar a little lower, you might touch the 30th seed.

 

[EVGENIMERLIN]

Right now is when y'all should be most-pissed about the Despres trade. If he was still on her roster, the Pens would have made a move by now. (It may have included him, but still)

This is why that trade killed me. Not cause he was moved ( I was a fan, but it had to be one of the Young Defensemen,) but because we traded a dollar for a bucket of wet sand and screwed ourselves

 

[Black Label]

I know this may be laughed at, but if Sutter is moved, and Mike Richards is bought-out, I honestly wouldn't mind a one-year deal for Richards.

He may not be the player he used to be, but I still think he'd be a better option than Spaling, who'd be a lateral move from Sutter.

Just save the money and let Sundqvist play. It's not like we're winning the cup anyway.

 

[AR5]

This legit made me

me too. lolz

 

[xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I know this may be laughed at, but if Sutter is moved, and Mike Richards is bought-out, I honestly wouldn't mind a one-year deal for Richards.

He may not be the player he used to be, but I still think he'd be a better option than Spaling, who'd be a lateral move from Sutter.

You'd be wrong. Richards is a shell of his former self, not just "not what he once was."

He is not an upgrade over Spaling, and he'd be more expensive to booth.

 

[Hottubber]

I know this may be laughed at, but if Sutter is moved, and Mike Richards is bought-out, I honestly wouldn't mind a one-year deal for Richards.

He may not be the player he used to be, but I still think he'd be a better option than Spaling, who'd be a lateral move from Sutter.

This is what I was thinking too. A cheap 1 year deal and have him on the 4th line. Let Sundquist and Spaling take turns at #3 center

 

[AR5]

Just save the money and let Sundqvist play. It's not like we're winning the cup anyway.

Heck, Tikhonov can compete with Spaling and Sundy for the 3C. Damn.

Also, I think Sutter is REALLY appealing to TOR, based on Shanny's comments on TSN. He likes players who hustle the puck. Sutter, at times, does indeed do that.

Don't know if he would be willing to pick up Kuni or Scuz tho for capdumps. They are the opposite of that.

 

[WayneSid9987]

Ya'll are wantin' the wrong Richards. Brad > Mike ainec.

 

[WayneSid9987]

The brain trust has arrived!

 

[Hottubber]

Ya'll are wantin' the wrong Richards. Brad > Mike ainec.

Anyone wanting Mike Richards probably only wants him for 1 year, cheap and for the 4th line. Brad Richards wont want another 1 year deal, it wont be that cheap and he wont play on the 4th line

 

[ObsessedCreative*]

The brain trust has arrived!

 

[pensfan71]

Anyone wanting Mike Richards probably only wants him for 1 year, cheap and for the 4th line. Brad Richards wont want another 1 year deal, it wont be that cheap and he wont play on the 4th line

2 years at most and that's ok...

We'll get a flexible C/LW who can make our 2nd PP respectable