King of the ES Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 Gee, seems like they were pretty desperate for a goaltender. Just not willing to pay the price I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boudrias Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 I disagree about T-Bay, and I have since this thing started. Other than Stamkos and Hedman, the core of the team is not really all that young. Vinny, Marty, Ohlie, Malone, Eric Brewer, Matt Carle....and now they add Sami Salo.... As D-Money says, it's extremely optimistic to say that Lindback will turn out to be a solid starter. Right now, their only other option is Mathieu Garon. Considering the improvements made in Carolina, the Lightning could easily find themselves on the outside looking in once again, unless they can somehow improve on their 30th best GAA. If only someone had a bona fide starter available.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boudrias Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 Gillis needs to just come out to the media and say he's not going to trade Luongo this season. Even if it's not true. Team's will still make inquiries, and that's all that matters. Get the media out of it though. Otherwise him and Luongo are going to contantly get bombarded with trade questions all season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuretoMogilny Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 He sounded like he did at the press conference after trading away Cody. I think it's called "nerves" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeNiro Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 In other words, they actually weren't desperate at all. Not interested in Luongo enough to meet Gillis' ask. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuretoMogilny Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 I would be happy with that too. It's starting to look like that may be true anyways though. I find it ironic that all the Toronto media has been doing is talking about Luongo to the Leafs since the offseason, and yet now they're saying that the Canucks are overvaluing him? Gee, seems like they were pretty desperate for a goaltender. Just not willing to pay the price I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HUFFY Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 everyone on here is saying the same thing. Other teams are supposed to give up their best players for one goaltender + take on his over-inflated contract. When this team is sitting in 10th or 11th place come playoff time we'll be saying that maybe we shouldn't have been so greedy. Remember one thing, it was MG who caused this whole Luongo gong show by signing him to 12 years @ 65 million dollars so now when Lu wants out and doesn't wanna be a backup it's that same MG driven contact that is keeping other teams from paying his dream world price for Roberto, who, in all honesty has yet to prove himself in the playoffs. NO ONE is gonna pay the price for Lu that MG is asking unless MG is willing to eat at least 75% of Roberto's contract and all the delusions of grandeur that we are posting on here is gonna change that fact!!! Roberto is way to expensive... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King of the ES Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 Different dynamic this year ES, pressure. Lou has seen alot of that, and Schnieds is learning. I actually think its smarter to keep him this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvis15 Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 Any ideas who the " four or five teams " Gillis is talking to? Just looking at Tampa Bays line up and it looks like they could be a team that would make a good trade partner! Thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 A lil misunderstanding. The teams not all that young. They do have a couple young guys coming up. They arent full of young guys but they are a team that is coming up. what I was trying to get across was that they'd be more interested in Schneider. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 everyone on here is saying the same thing. Other teams are supposed to give up their best players for one goaltender + take on his over-inflated contract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf smell Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 If you say so. Just don't look at the second line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UFCanuck Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 When asked to address the possibility that the team was looking for too much in return for Luongo, Gillis fired back. "Fair value is different for every team that you speak to because they have different players, they have different concerns and different contractual issues that play into what they have available that you might want," said Gillis. "The notion that we were asking for too much was floated in the Toronto media by a team that was extremely interested in acquiring Roberto and were using every means possible to try and force us to do something that we didn't think was right. That's nothing new in this business and it's not the type of pressure that I'm going to succumb too." When asked if a potential deal with Toronto is "dead" as some have reported, Gillis noted that things can change. "I don't care, there's a lot of stuff that's going to happen in the first two weeks of this season," Gillis remarked. "If you start giving all-star players away, you'll be at the bottom of this league in a real hurry. So we have two really good goalies, I don't know what's going to happen with other teams - players might not play well, there may be injuries that they have at that position which may change the landscape. But as it sits today, we need to get something in return that is going to help our team and we're not in the business of just helping other teams. http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=413886 Here's looking at you Burke, Nonis, John Shannon, Damien Cox and the rest of the Toronto Media. Gillis 1 - Leafs 0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theminister Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 everyone on here is saying the same thing. Other teams are supposed to give up their best players for one goaltender + take on his over-inflated contract. When this team is sitting in 10th or 11th place come playoff time we'll be saying that maybe we shouldn't have been so greedy. Remember one thing, it was MG who caused this whole Luongo gong show by signing him to 12 years @ 65 million dollars so now when Lu wants out and doesn't wanna be a backup it's that same MG driven contact that is keeping other teams from paying his dream world price for Roberto, who, in all honesty has yet to prove himself in the playoffs. NO ONE is gonna pay the price for Lu that MG is asking unless MG is willing to eat at least 75% of Roberto's contract and all the delusions of grandeur that we are posting on here is gonna change that fact!!! Roberto is way to expensive... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf smell Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 I'm sure they would be, however Schneider isn't the one that's being made available.... ...not without Hedman or Purcell + a high pick coming back... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccc44 Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 When asked to address the possibility that the team was looking for too much in return for Luongo, Gillis fired back. "Fair value is different for every team that you speak to because they have different players, they have different concerns and different contractual issues that play into what they have available that you might want," said Gillis. "The notion that we were asking for too much was floated in the Toronto media by a team that was extremely interested in acquiring Roberto and were using every means possible to try and force us to do something that we didn't think was right. That's nothing new in this business and it's not the type of pressure that I'm going to succumb too." When asked if a potential deal with Toronto is "dead" as some have reported, Gillis noted that things can change. "I don't care, there's a lot of stuff that's going to happen in the first two weeks of this season," Gillis remarked. "If you start giving all-star players away, you'll be at the bottom of this league in a real hurry. So we have two really good goalies, I don't know what's going to happen with other teams - players might not play well, there may be injuries that they have at that position which may change the landscape. But as it sits today, we need to get something in return that is going to help our team and we're not in the business of just helping other teams. http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=413886 Here's looking at you Burke, Nonis, John Shannon, Damien Cox and the rest of the Toronto Media. Gillis 1 - Leafs 0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccc44 Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 Hilarious. Even worse than King's suggestion the Nucks don't make the playoffs. Pray tell, who are the only 4-5 teams they won't beat out this year? Columbus? Phoenix? Anaheim? Dallas? Colorado? Edmonton? Calgary? Nashville? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pears Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 Phoenix could finish ahead of us and Nashville and i predict Edmonton wins the division. Look we basically have no second line for half the season the way it looks right now so dont get to cocky buddy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccc44 Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 Edmonton winning the division Not with that defense they aren't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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