billabong Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 in recent years theres always been 1 big fish around deadline day with likes of Richards, hossa, nash and iginla. this year is no different as vanek is proned for UFA status on july 1st and buf going into rebuild mode it only makes sense that they will get young assets and picks for vanek and miller. this is year different though because about half the league is within 1m of the cap or right up against it so its gonna be interesting to see how this plays out. the most likely destination is Minnesota because he played university hockey there back in the day, his wife is from there and his long time liney pomminville now resides in the twin cities. the rest of the players who don't come with as high of price tag but can still make a impact on a team going for the cup...stastny, camo, timonen, hemsky, legwand, whitney, jokinen, jagr, meszaros, zidlicky, stajan, Schultz, setoguchi, ott and stempniak legwand(NTC) and ott are two names that attract my interest for the canucks needs. nsh has fisher, smith, gaustad, Cullen and Hendricks who can play fill the void at center and don't forget about nsh letting suter walking and getting nothing for him and poile was non too happy about that so I doubt if hes going to do that again. to van: legwand to nsh: booth, Schroeder, 3rd pick 2015 I know its not much to offer but I wouldn't give much more because legwand is purely a rental sedin-sedin-kassian burrows-kesler-Hansen Higgins-legwand-santorelli sestito-richardson-weise andddd here we go again with the ott to van rumours but now ott is a UFA and has no NTC. he is the exact player we need and unlike legwand he could have a future with the team even with the young guns coming up in the next few years but booth(UFA in 2015) probably cant stay due to cap reasons (we'll know if we can have both once the cap is determined for next year). to buf: dalpe, schroeder, 2nd pick 2015 to van: ott sedin-sedin-kassian burrows-kesler-booth Higgins-ott-Hansen weise-richardson-santorelli sestito its hard to say where otts value lies at the moment but I would give up a little more for his services if they asked for it (within reason) because of his versatility and style of play and how much better does that top 9 look with a legit nhl player anchoring the 3rd line center spot. I know it might be early to start talking about this but you gotta start somewhere and I doubt their status will change between now and D-days so whats the difference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Mind Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 MG would be wise to stay away from rental players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harmer Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 Ott as our third line centre and Legwand as a top six guy another depth guy on defense would be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicklas Bo Hunter Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 No more rental players... we are not even considered cup contenders anymore why trade our future? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billabong Posted October 14, 2013 Author Share Posted October 14, 2013 No more rental players... we are not even considered cup contenders anymore why trade our future? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pears Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 I don't consider Schroeder or dalpe "future"...this is the last year we have decent chance at the cup with this core and before we go into the messy years I would give one last go at it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billabong Posted October 15, 2013 Author Share Posted October 15, 2013 We actually have 2-3 years left to win with this group with Shinkaruk, Horvat, Gaunce, Jensen, and Corrado coming up full time next year Sedin - Sedin - Kassian Shinkaruk - Kesler - Burrows Gaunce - Horvat - Jensen Higgins - Richardson - Hansen Weise, Santorelli Hamhuis - Edler Garrison - Bieksa Tanev - Corrado Stanton Luongo Lack/Eriksson The kids will almost for sure give the vets some extra energy, like how Galchenyuk and Gallagher re-energized Montreal's veterans last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hlaevang Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 the last time a team managed that was several years ago. Detroit managed it several times when they had Hasek between the pipes. At that time the average player age on their team was about 33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timberz21 Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 Pretty much all of our deadline acquisition have failed (Pahlsson, Roy). Except with Higgins, but can't say it was a "huge" acquisition, more of a decent one. Why should we waste prospect or picks for such a high risk/not so high reward trade. Actually when you look at teams like San Jose who got rid of Clowe and Murray and getting much more than their true value, why shouldn't we trade our players at the deadline? Imagine what we could get for our supporting cast. Hansen (top20 1st rounder?), Higgins (high 1st rounder, early 2nd?), Edler, Hamhuis, Bieksa (top-20 1st rounder at least, if Murray got two 2nd rounder). I'm not saying trade all of them, but maybe 1 forward and one defenseman. Next year it's highly probably that 2 of these 3 (Shinkaruk, Horvat and Gaunce) makes the team and also Corrado. Our top 9 should be pretty full along with our top 4 d-men. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timberz21 Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 We actually have 2-3 years left to win with this group with Shinkaruk, Horvat, Gaunce, Jensen, and Corrado coming up full time next year Sedin - Sedin - Kassian Shinkaruk - Kesler - Burrows Gaunce - Horvat - Jensen Higgins - Richardson - Hansen Weise, Santorelli Hamhuis - Edler Garrison - Bieksa Tanev - Corrado Stanton Luongo Lack/Eriksson The kids will almost for sure give the vets some extra energy, like how Galchenyuk and Gallagher re-energized Montreal's veterans last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogbyte Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 I think you'll see Jagr and Hemsky moved as well as Mezaros. Also, Stastny is looking awesome but don't know if they can re-sign him. Ott is going nowhere. He's the Captain. We have very little chance at a cup this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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