Bananas Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Yeah, shopping Gragnani makes Gillis look desperate. Other teams could care less about this guy. Why should Gillis? He already has better players in the system and on the rise. The fact that he was competing with Tanev for ice-time was just more brain-dead BS on AV's part. It was very obvious that Tanev is much better than MAG. Still, I am much happier that Rome will be gone. I seriously don't get what AV's love affair with him was... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rey Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Some guys get thrown in as part of a trade. MG took a flyer on this guy and it didn't pan out. Why complain about what we think management's mentality is? MAG got hot during the playoffs with Buffalo last year. Wasn't going to happen this year or ever again. Oh Well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABurrows14 Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 My guess is they got him as a value part of the deal, a call option. If it worked out great if not let him go. Perhaps MG wanted to put him in the minors so he could develop some more. He could skate, but that offensive game wasn't really evident and his defensive play was attrocious. I was actually quite surprised this guy was in the NHL whn I watched him, we have much better players in the minors. He needs more time to develop in the minors and maybe his agent was averse to that, so MG decided ok, well we're not wasting cap space and a roster spot on you so cya! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABurrows14 Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Yeah, shopping Gragnani makes Gillis look desperate. Other teams could care less about this guy. Why should Gillis? He already has better players in the system and on the rise. The fact that he was competing with Tanev for ice-time was just more brain-dead BS on AV's part. It was very obvious that Tanev is much better than MAG. Still, I am much happier that Rome will be gone. I seriously don't get what AV's love affair with him was... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canuck Surfer Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Proves Gillis was not at his best when he made the trade. Thought Kassian was ready to make an impact right away? Thought (and this is unbelievable) that acquiring a 4th left side D (when we had Ballard already languishing) was a good idea? Hell, we already had a PP quarterback AHL all star left side D we could have called up! Good thing this bone headed trade has been the exception, not the rule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJDDawg Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Thank God he was NOT qualified. My guess was that the team intended to qualify him all along, but that when they realized they were in real deep on Schultz (and maybe a couple other guys), they had to quickly scramble to clear some contracts to get under the 50 contract limit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hockeywoot Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Thank God he was NOT qualified. My guess was that the team intended to qualify him all along, but that when they realized they were in real deep on Schultz (and maybe a couple other guys), they realized they had to quickly clear some contracts as they were at the 50 contract limit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancity87 Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 This I think they'd have taken him on as a 'project' otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krazz Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 This 'who cares' mentality is not what management should have. They should be trying to get the best return possible. 14 games and out is pretty weak. Either get some other player with some sort of value or a pick at least instead of poorly evaluating a player then simply dumping him at seasons end.They poorly scouted Gragnani or they didn't really care what else they got in the deal for Cody and came to the conclusion that they were going to dump Gragnani at seasons end anyway. It's one or the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juwanski Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 This This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John.Tallhouse Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 For the AHL hell ya.. Don't wanna see Grag's for awhile tho he's way too soft! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UrbanSpectrum Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoosh Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 ^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5minutesinthebox Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 He wasn't really that bad guys, I dont know what all the complainers are talking about. He didnt really get much of a chance even. I would prefer him in the line up instead of guys like Alberts or Rome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vansicle Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 up the pipe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkyway Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 After five years of this crap, why does anyone believe a word MG says? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. White Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Schultz >>>>>> Gragnani Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHIPS Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 MAG might have zero interest in staying. And since the value of his rights are minimal, MG decided to be classy and just let him walk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tortorella's Rant Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Pretty sure he was shopped while he was with Buffalo and generated 0 interest at the time as well. I don't think a $550k d-man who is a liability on the defensive end will garner much interest, especially when there is no risk for the team to wait out Gillis (either GMMG qualifies and takes a 550k d-man off the market, or the other teams don't need to spend a pick to negotiate his rights). Considering the rights for Christian Ehrhoff were traded for a fourth (multiple times) last season, how much do you think a return for MAG would be? Also, considering that we didn't use Sulzer a whole lot during his time here, I don't think it really matters which defenseman came back in the Hodgson deal. The trade with Buffalo was essentially Kassian for Hodgson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tortorella's Rant Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Some guys get thrown in as part of a trade. MG took a flyer on this guy and it didn't pan out. Why complain about what we think management's mentality is? MAG got hot during the playoffs with Buffalo last year. Wasn't going to happen this year or ever again. Oh Well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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