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purcell and a pick was best agreed to, id like to try and pry connolly as well. But I would really hate to loose Bieksa. And dont think tampa has a need for a lhd. Bieksa is an emotional leader on the ice, we dont see anyone else play that way on our defence. Always been a big fan and would rather move one of the 3 lefties 1st. Mainly because Corrado is still young, and tanev, well hes been great but what are his contract demands. I was hoping MG would announce a Tanev Extension during these olympics...

but our offense gets horribly worse

i dont think colorado trades their 1st line winger for Edler. Would love the deal, but think Colorado would want more for O reilly. Hasnt management come out and said they arent trading him and seems like the player is happy under the new regime. I would re sign with that young skilled team too. Colorado has a good group of young forwards. But ya never know what can happen

it could all be nothing, but looking at how we have played this calender year, our need for offensive help in the top 6(although thats going on 2yrs) I would hope GM MG has finally seen the light at the end fo the tunnel and decided to pick up the phone and potential move a player that he may have not wanted to before. We could use some form of a change at the very least this year. If that doesnt help and he barely make the playoffs or get swept, then this off season alot more should be done

are they taking booth or burrows back? Franzen is so injury prone played 80 games once in his career, never topped 60 points. Put his age aand injuries plus his contract I think its not worth considering. his last 3 postseasons havent been that great. if we was healthy and playing well it would be a bit different. I dont want us trading for an older injured player if we move edler. I hope this rumour is just a rumour and nothing more

if we needed cap coming back it wouldnt be for a 34 yr old signed for 6 more years, whos had injury problems. Id rather take samuelsson and quincey atleast both are ufa. if mg Moves edler for franzen he better get 2 of nyquist,jurco,mantha sheahan and oulett/sproul and a 1st We get an aging player while trade a d man signed during his prime? Hell no!

Time for the GM to do something in my opinion, but thats been said a million times and hes done nothing to solve our scoring woes for 3 yrs. What I would like to say is Tatar,Nyquist,Sheahan Jurco. 4 Younger players who really impressed me from detroit. And they trust them, the all rookie line was out there with only a couple minutes left. Sure wouldnt mind 1 of those in part of a trade maybe 2! Plus they have Mantha. Looks like there future could be decent with there youngsters. great drafting KH, and what a way to develop them and bring them in. Not a detroit fan but am impressed with there young guys who are key contributors right now on there team. Also, on the PK Andersson for them does a solid job too. Dekeyser looks like a solid puck moving d man, great college pickup

Ya for sure. although for bobby ryan, whos value should be on par or above e.kane. He got a prospect 1st and a player. Is silverberg similar to hansen? maybe has higher upside. But neither that 1st or a prospect is on par with horvat. I would also have interest in B.schenn. Id like him on the second line. and philly has a need for a top 4lhd under 30. As meszaros is all but gone and timmonen is in his late 30s and also a ufa. something around schenn and edler? I also do agree a puck mover on the back end would be nice. but unless we move tanev out of the top 4, it would have to be a bottom pairing d man. like a kris russell, or someone whos one dimensional for offense. Not sure who we could maybe get, any ideas on a PP quarterback, not named b.campbell. I kinda thought delzotto would have been worth a chance, or maybe gardner? barrie from colorado? I know moving our top tier prospects isnt something we should rush at doing, but we do need ideally 2 top 6 forwards, until kassian can be a legit top 6 guy, and a pp qb would also be nice as you stated. Im hoping some things can happen this year, and then see how we do and re assess at the draft and ufa to try to tweak the other areas

no thanks too much on our end

Luo has played very good for us this year. And you dont think if we acquired 2 top 6 players would significantly improve our team, and that being said the players we would get say: E.kane, Wheeler,Oreilly,stastny who all have lots of good hockey in them.. Sedin sedin kane/wheeler burrows kesler wheeler/o'reilly/stastny higgins schroeder/richardson kassian sestito richardson/dalpe weise/Booth hamhuis tanev garrison bieksa stanton weber/ other d via trade or corrado luongo That team doesnt impress you and give you 2 legit scoring lines? with solid d and goaltending. And we trade edler,hansen and horvat. One of which we have too many of LHD and a prospect whos atleast 2-3 yrs away from being somewhat of a major contributor game breaker. Its a bold move to potentially do. But after making it to game 7 of the cup final and then watch 3 years go by and not see us make any upgrades as we watch our core age, i think the time has come where you have to consider going with a big bold move, or you give in to not being good enough, move the older guys with ntc, should have never resigned the twins and dealt away players for prospects and picks. But since that isnt what MG is doing, he should be aggressively trying to improve now. why wait till july where you can hope to buyout booth, and maybe get a top 6 winger who will most likely get overpaid. Personally im tired of seeing us struggle to score. and if trading schneider leads us to mooving horvat inevitabely for say E.Kane Im sure ppl wont be upset. As if we could have made a schneider for Kane trade straight up almost all fans would be happy with that

other teams arent afraid of moving young top end talent to help them win a cup. LA traded. b, schenn and simmonds just to acquire mike richards. That along with get Carter did what for the kings??? Oh ya they went on to win a stanley cup. So it can pay off to trade a young high valued prospect for immediate help.

i think you look at different ways to improve first, but if MG gets a very good player offered to him that is young and he feels helps our team, he has to take it into serious consideration. But from what he has said, it sounds like MG wants to bring Horvat up and groom him to be a top 6 center and take over once the sedins new deal is up. But that being said he still needs to make some moves to try and compete and have a shot at winning during the Sedins window. If I was him I would quietly allow teams to know that he would be willing to move edler, same way he did with hodgson. See if any offers intrigue him and then do what he said he wouldnt do. Approach Edler and say ''We have a lot of teams that would like you, this benefits both parties, are you willing to waive to go the X team" If he chooses not to do that, then I feel GM MG isnt doing his job as a NHL Gm, and he should be under serious review and on the hot seat, 3 years of still needing a quality top 6 scoring forward, and the best he has done is bring in the injured and now healthy scratched Booth. Over 3 years, thats just not enough from a so called top regular season team, that has failed the past 2 years miserabely in the playoffs

hes been great all year on the wing. Toss him with the twins or kesler. doesnt have to play center. just gives a a legit top 6 center if one ever went down. Withouth cdc panicking over we dont have depth. future top 2 centers o reilly horvat not bad

ROR signed to an extension 7yrs 5.5m cap hit. Thats what id try to get for a deal as he can sign for less and we give him max years. Colorado would probly offer him 8 yrs maybe a 6m to match duchene but they will have mackinnon to resign in 2 more years and other guys aswell. Edler, Hansen, 2nd for ROR and Mcginn(3rd liner whos got size)

Gillis has a responsibilty as a GM of a professional hockey team to improve. We made it to the cup finals and got pushed around and couldnt score. Im not sure if we are still a gritty enough team. We need that SImmonds type player in our top 6 imo Also Gillis has done nothing to imrpove our top 6 offensive and scoring, and now the sedins are getting older as is burrows, and Kesler cant take two 3rd liners and make them look and produce like 2nd liners. So ya, 3 years and we still have the same issues, and have been bounced in the 1st round in 2 straight years after so called being an elite team, now coming to realize that things have changed. Id say GM MG aint doing his job to go out and get us scoring help and or gritty players that can score and inserting them on the team. Be BOLD MG, you might have to overpay a bit, or trade a young asset or 2 to get us help now. and grow some balls and go to a guy like Edler and say, hey man we appreciate all you have done, but I gotta make a change, where are you willing to waive for. Players LIke Hansen, Edler, Jensen,Corrado, our 1st, Horvat/Shinkaruk. THey should be in play if we get a impact player now. I like Horvat but If we get a 30+ goal scorer now to play with twins or kesler whos say 26 or under then I dont see it as being a major loss. edler for b.schenn or simmonds(but hes on a tear lately) edler, jensen for O reilly(signed to extension under 6m) Hansen, Horvat For E.Kane and a 2nd Gillis should be active around the league with no one off limits to atleast hear about offers about them. And to read Weise is in play, come on. Weise to the Rangers for a 5/6 round pick

its a similar trade to how we got booth. We traded a contract player in samuelson for an expensive ahl in reinprecht. throw the horrible sturm signing and we got a hopeful top 6 in booth. Now its a similar deal we loose the contract at season end. maybe we take a bit more cap 3 for samuelsson and 1.9 for tootoo. But in the summer the 3m comes off the books and tootoo could be a good 4th liner still he had 30 pts in his last year in nashville. I remember he use to be a wrecking ball finish all his checks, despite his stature he was still a decent scrapper. I dont know maybe we send booth and weise for the above package? sestito dalpe tootoo?

send him to detroit for samuelson who has been injured ever since he left here. straight up trade maybe if they could send us a pick that be nice. Or do we look at taking back tootoo?

voted for him just now. decent distance between him and the top, but lets get these crazy energetic CDC'ers to vote for Ben hutton! When is the deadline didnt check? but you can vote once a day...so bookmark that and do it daily...for the sake of Ben!!

if the theory of torts sits players that dont produce is true, would he not have sat burrows after not producing over a decent stretch in the top 6? he never did though? just sayin

part of me does feel bad for booth. he has been injured alot since we acquired him. Then once burrows went down the second time, Booth saw 1 game on the top line thats it. To me, I woulda stuck Booth with the twins for atleast 10 games. give him a legit shot to play. Give him time on the PP. He has for the most part been healthy this year. He does make 4.25m, he was brought in to score goals, why wasnt he given a true shot with the twins to see if he can get back to that 30g form? Instead we bench him, play dalpe with the twins, come on. Sestito on the 2nd line, I mean I like Torts but is it him, MG, or the owner that just doesnt want to give Booth a fair chance in the top 6. Burrows has played top 6 this year and in 17 gp, 0 goals, 3 a and a -7. How can he put up horrid numbers like that and remain in the top 6. You need to produce to be their and clearly those numbers arent producing numbers. Booth 32gp 5g 5a +4 and not near as much quality ice time. And since i seem to almost be on a rant or against burrows, why did MG give him a long term deal when hes 33 and only produced at .5ppg last year. That seems like a huge overpayment. I know he plays a two way game but damn Anyways, think Booth hasnt been given a true chance this year to show what he can do playing with quality players and there was a perfect chance to replace the struggling/injured burrows.

if we can try a booth for erat or another struggling player swap id try that. ideally one with an expiring contract. or flat out put him on waivers, never know he could get picked up by a team then hes out of our hair

i like these lines very nice choices imo

Neal should have been on the team imo aswell. DOnt think nash's play makes him deserving of a spot, im sorry but that should be a no brainer. Especially when Neal, Giroux, St.louis But overall, still a solid lineup, could never announce the team and not have ppl unhappy about certain guys making/missing the team. Just really shocked Nash made it, His play this year is far inferior to the above players that missed out

congrats Hammer!! maybe he can play with Weber, were they not a pairing during his time with nashville? Either way its a huge honour to be a part of the team, Way to go!! 2 Canucks made our nations team!!

he has versatility to play wing and center. If we were to move one or two of Booth/hansen/kassian/schroeder/weise/sestito etc any bottom six guy via trade, buyout or dont resign. Id give santorelli 2yrs 3,5m if he wants more and decides to go for the money thats fine, so far hes playing well and may want to cash in. If he wants to stay at home he will resign for reasonably short contract for fairly cheap