ken kaniff Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 I’ve been a big fan of Fabbro since he was on Pentiction. He had a pretty good World Juniors also considering he was injured before. He’s also a local kid. Considering the log jam on defensemen in Nashville I don’t think Fabbro will be getting a shot there. Also Nashville has a great shot at winning the cup this year and Fabbro could be used as a chip to bring in more pieces to put them over the top. what would it take for Vancouver to land this kid? I think Vanek could interest them. He’s having a pretty good offensive season for us and is a PP specialist. Obviously we would have to add more but I think Vanek could be a starting piece. what do you fine people think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nucker 67 Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 T. Vanek and ? for D. Fabbro? Not sure who we'd add to that. Sautner? He's from New West, wonder if he knows Virtanen well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mll Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 Poile disagrees that they have a log jam. Before that 2016 draft he was concerned by their lack of D in their prospect pool. Predators draft BPA but they were hoping to draft a D in the 1st and 2nd round that year to re-stock their cupboards. He did several interviews on that as well as their head of amateur scout who talked about how they hadn't focused enough on Ds lately. Ellis is a UFA in one season and Josi in two seasons - they've moved Girard. Fabbro is now even more important to them. This was one of Poile's quotes in the Tennessean ahead of the draft: "I'm not saying we're drafting a defenseman, but don't be surprised if we did draft a defenseman because you have to start planning for the future. If you're drafting an 18-year-old and you're looking four years down the road and you add four years onto the age of our defense, it could be time to develop another highly rated defenseman." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mll Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 9 minutes ago, NUCKER67 said: T. Vanek and ? for D. Fabbro? Not sure who we'd add to that. Sautner? He's from New West, wonder if he knows Virtanen well? Poile did his mea culpa of failed TDL trades a couple of years ago. He talked about how he gave up too much and that it mostly messed up chemistry. They've only added for depth since - Parrenteau and Fiddler last year and both didn't play every game. They preferred going with their prospects in Milwaukee re injuries to Fiala/Johansen. He also already said that his deadline trade this year will be to try and add Eeli Tolvanen as soon as his season with Jokerit is over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken kaniff Posted January 10, 2018 Author Share Posted January 10, 2018 1 minute ago, mll said: Poile disagrees that they have a log jam. Before that 2016 draft he was concerned by their lack of D in their prospect pool. Predators draft BPA but they were hoping to draft a D in the 1st and 2nd round that year to re-stock their cupboards. He did several interviews on that as well as their head of amateur scout who talked about how they hadn't focused enough on Ds lately. Ellis is a UFA in one season and Josi in two seasons - they've moved Girard. Fabbro is now even more important to them. This was one of Poile's quotes in the Tennessean ahead of the draft: "I'm not saying we're drafting a defenseman, but don't be surprised if we did draft a defenseman because you have to start planning for the future. If you're drafting an 18-year-old and you're looking four years down the road and you add four years onto the age of our defense, it could be time to develop another highly rated defenseman." Very interesting. I did not realize that was Polies game plan. However if we were to give them something to win now and additionally something for the future but not quite as good as Fabbro, would they bite? I think they might. Winning the cup beats building for the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhippy Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 Honestly I'd say Beartschi and a 4th could do it. Maybe Vanek and a decent defensive prospect going back Regardless of what Poille says he has to see his window is over the next 3 years with the current forward core being locked up until 2020-2021 and his ridiculous blue line being locked up to the same with only Emelin a UFA before 2020. In 4 years the average age of that defense will be 30 years 7 months, his forwards will have an average age of 31 years 2 months Then with Lyytinen, Dougerty and Allard doing decently well Fabbro is a very attractive trade piece for a team that is just fractionally above middle of the pack for scoring in playoff bound teams. Fabbro would be an attractive trade piece that could/would command a top 6 winger possibly, if nothing else it cannot hurt to ask. A GM that knows his window is open will make interesting moves and with a 3-4 year window to contention and an uncanny ability to find defensive studs in every round while maintaining a ridiculous workable internal cap why not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
86Viking Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 Be a good target no doubt, but he would cost quite a bit. Baertschi for sure over Vanek. Atleast they can control baer as an rfa, Vanek is a ufa. A cheaper D prospect alternative from Nashville would be Jack Dougherty or Alexandre Carrier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ojibwa72 Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 Kid I want from nashville is Trevor Murphy. Kinda small but numbers look good. Player Statistics Roster Player Stats Name: Trevor Murphy Number: 8 Pos.: D Shoots: L Height: 5-11 Weight: 186 Birthdate: 1995-07-17 Birthplace: Regular Season Stats Season Team GP G A PTS +/- PIM 2017-18 Regular Season Milwaukee Admirals 36 4 17 21 8 57 2016-17 Regular Season Milwaukee Admirals 75 12 21 33 -6 92 2015-16 Regular Season Milwaukee Admirals 59 11 21 32 4 37 total 170 27 59 86 6 186 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.I.A.H.N Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 On 2018-01-10 at 12:44 PM, mll said: Poile disagrees that they have a log jam. Before that 2016 draft he was concerned by their lack of D in their prospect pool. Predators draft BPA but they were hoping to draft a D in the 1st and 2nd round that year to re-stock their cupboards. He did several interviews on that as well as their head of amateur scout who talked about how they hadn't focused enough on Ds lately. Ellis is a UFA in one season and Josi in two seasons - they've moved Girard. Fabbro is now even more important to them. This was one of Poile's quotes in the Tennessean ahead of the draft: "I'm not saying we're drafting a defenseman, but don't be surprised if we did draft a defenseman because you have to start planning for the future. If you're drafting an 18-year-old and you're looking four years down the road and you add four years onto the age of our defense, it could be time to develop another highly rated defenseman." This is a very important quote by Poile, who has to be considered one of the premium defensemen drafting GM's...............he says 4 years to develop a Dman....... Get on it JIm! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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