pm88
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i hope we can find a way to get him signed..though based on the way this season has gone I wouldnt be surprised if he wants to get the hell out of here
Exactly. I'm over the "OMG will Ryan sign" thing. If he isn't signed by the deadline next year, move him. Some contender will pay through the nose for him.
As for Anaheim's pick, well, at least they aren't in our conference.
The fact that we don't even have a pick to look forward to after this pathetic season is devastating.
This team never fails to shoot themselves in the foot. We sucked all year in 2009, only to go on a late-season hot streak and screw ourselves out of a top pick, which was the difference between OEL and Cowen. We were set to pick top 3 in 2011, only to go on another late-season hot streak and screw ourselves out of another elite player. Was the difference between Landeskog and Zibanejad.
Now, without a 1st round pick in this upcoming draft, we have decided to aim for 10 straight losses late in the season to ensure Anaheim gets to pick in the top 5 and get that player we were never able to draft, because of some late season heroics by current underachieving Senators
Have you seen what rentals got last TD. No one will pay through the nose. We're lucky if we get a first.
I retract my prior statement. This team will find a way to finish last overall. Watch out Buffalo.
*reactionary post.
Mathematically we cannot finish last.
I did a thingy and the chances of getting a player of Bobby Ryan's calibre outside of the top 5 in a given year (2005 to 2010, too early to judge later drafts) range from zero to twenty percent.
You can judge for yourself whether the addition of Silfverberg and Noesen to "draft pick 80%-100% likely to be worse than Ryan" makes the trade awful, but if you believe in the "best player" theory of trading...
edit: it was from an email and not very scientifically done, but:
It is completely fair to acknowledge/criticize the projections of Murray and the Senators organization just as Burke did in trading draft picks for Kessel. Burke misjudged his team, suffered from sub-.900 goaltending, and ended up the second worst team in the league. Murray misjudged his team, suffered from sub .910 goaltender (and sub.900 in long stretches) and barring a miracle will be snuggly in the bottom 10 of the league. Both GMs misjudged but probably still ended up with the best players in the whole transaction. It just looks awful on them on draft day.
they didn't trade Seguin or Hamilton for Kessel though.Seguin has one less point than Phil Kessel (with three less games played) and is a +14 compared to Kessel's -2.
Well then we move him at the deadline.
The fact that we don't even have a pick to look forward to after this pathetic season is devastating.
This team never fails to shoot themselves in the foot. We sucked all year in 2009, only to go on a late-season hot streak and screw ourselves out of a top pick, which was the difference between OEL and Cowen. We were set to pick top 3 in 2011, only to go on another late-season hot streak and screw ourselves out of another elite player. Was the difference between Landeskog and Zibanejad.
Now, without a 1st round pick in this upcoming draft, we have decided to aim for 10 straight losses late in the season to ensure Anaheim gets to pick in the top 5 and get that player we were never able to draft, because of some late season heroics by current underachieving Senators
they didn't trade Seguin or Hamilton for Kessel though.
i feared i was intruding on an ongoing discussion. phil is an established top flight winger, while Seguin has to establish himself and this year in Dallas is a great start, but that's all it is.Did you read what I bolded and responded to? The part about both GM's getting the best player of the bunch?
Did you read what I bolded and responded to? The part about both GM's getting the best player of the bunch?
Wow, we may at the end of the season be in a position to draft(hypothetically) Draistatl or Nylander.
Those guys are like Monahan.
Can't ****ing believe it.
Apology accepted.