Speculation: 2014 Trade Deadline Discussion - Part IX - The Buffalo Syndrome

[66-30-33]

I can see why the blues made that deal, they never won a cup and this could be there year.

If Pens don't win, i'm pulling for Miller and the Blues now.

 

[Le Magnifique 66]

IF the Penguins do trade Sutter, who do they get to improve the bottom 6?

Hopefully they can make minor moves like Mathias or Bergenheim from Florida. Bennett would be on the 3rd line when he would return. We definitely would have to improve

 

[Randy Butternubs]

He's [Kesler] now worth two firsts.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Hopefully they can make minor moves like Mathias or Bergenheim from Florida. Bennett would be on the 3rd line when he would return. We definitely would have to improve

Is this what you're thinking?

Kunitz-Crosby-Kesler
Jokinen-Malkin-Neal
???-FloridaRental-Bennett
Glass-Vitale-Adams

 

[Michael8771*]

Is this what you're thinking?

Kunitz-Crosby-Kesler
Jokinen-Malkin-Neal
???-FloridaRental-Bennett
Glass-Vitale-Adams

What makes you think BB will be back this season?

 

[Ogrezilla]

What makes you think BB will be back this season?

we have no reason to think otherwise

 

[Bishop7979]

Is this what you're thinking?

Kunitz-Crosby-Kesler
Jokinen-Malkin-Neal
???-FloridaRental-Bennett
Glass-Vitale-Adams

Florida rental = Goc?

I'd be down with that.

 

[66-30-33]

Is this what you're thinking?

Kunitz-Crosby-Kesler
Jokinen-Malkin-Neal
???-FloridaRental-Bennett
Glass-Vitale-Adams

Next Season:

Kunitz-Crosby-Kesler
Kulemin-Malkin-Neal
BB-Jokinen-Dupuis
Sill-Vitale-Adams

 

[Michael8771*]

we have no reason to think otherwise

Um, really? What indication do you have that he'll be able to come back and play this season? Other than just hope of course.

Considering he's had a recent setback I'd say yes, there is an ample reason to doubt it.

 

[Jacob]

Um, really? What indication do you have that he'll be able to come back and play this season? Other than just hope of course.

Considering he's had a recent setback I'd say yes, there is an ample reason to doubt it.

They said 3-4 weeks.

 

[roquay]

I like the idea of getting a Centre who can play wing. With the injuries Crosby and Malkin have gotten it's good insurance.

Kunitz-Crosby-Kessler
Jokinen-Malkin-Neal
What a top 6. They can trade picks, prospects for bottom 6 pieces pretty easily.

 

[Ugene Magic]

Sounds like a bidding war...

Run Shero Run!

 

[Ogrezilla]

Um, really? What indication do you have that he'll be able to come back and play this season? Other than just hope of course.

Considering he's had a recent setback I'd say yes, there is an ample reason to doubt it.

They said he'll be back. That's my indication that he'll be back.

 

[Michael8771*]

They said 3-4 weeks.

They said that eight weeks ago as well. A month ago they said he should be back right after the Olympic break.

 

[66-30-33]

I like the idea of getting a Centre who can play wing. With the injuries Crosby and Malkin have gotten it's good insurance.

Kunitz-Crosby-Kessler
Jokinen-Malkin-Neal
What a top 6. They can trade picks, prospects for bottom 6 pieces pretty easily.

Are we still going on with this Kessler BS? it's KESLER! Why don't we call Staal, Stall?

 

[Pharrell Williams]

This is absolutely fantastic.

 

[Michael8771*]

They said he'll be back. That's my indication that he'll be back.

I see. So when they tell you a player will be back in a certain time frame you just blindly believe them? Because they've already been wrong with Bennet on two occasions thus far THIS season. So all of a sudden they'll be right this time? Ok, believe it if you like.

 

[Speaking Moistly]

Oh, good, I sense a Michael argument brewing.

This gif, it's amazing, hilarious and horrifying.

 

[Ogrezilla]

They said that eight weeks ago as well. A month ago they said he should be back right after the Olympic break.

everything we have to go on has him coming back. you can think otherwise, but we are the ones with evidence to support our argument here. Every indication we have says he will be back. Is it a guarantee? No. But its the best evidence we have.

 

[cheesedanish87]

https://twitter.com/H_P_Hockey/status/439565435294724096

Scouts from St. Louis, Montreal, Columbus, Vancouver and Edmonton in the house for tonight's #WBSPens game in Syracuse. #TradeWatch

 

[Speaking Moistly]

Are we still going on with this Kessler BS? it's KESLER! Why don't we call Staal, Stall?

I don't want a player whose short name can't be spelled by people, I don't want to fight that battle.

 

[Lustaf]

Pierre said to look at the Pominville deal from last year at what it will take to get Kesler and that it might be even more.

He talked a 5 piece deal, A level prospect, A- prospect, 1st and 2nd and an established NHL player.

BACK AWAY SHERO, BACK AWAY!

 

[roquay]

Are we still going on with this Kessler BS? it's KESLER! Why don't we call Staal, Stall?

I remember my first overreaction.

 

[Captain Hook]

https://twitter.com/H_P_Hockey/status/439565435294724096

Scouts from St. Louis, Montreal, Columbus, Vancouver and Edmonton in the house for tonight's #WBSPens game in Syracuse. #TradeWatch

Vancouver is certainly doing their homework on the Pens the past couple nights.

 

[Ragamuffin Gunner]

For KIRK in response to "I was right about Shero"




Look, the Kunitz/Guerin trades helped win a Stanley Cup. You can never take that away from him.

At the time, the Kunitz trade was a hockey trade. A need for a need which ended up being a steal because of Whitney's injury troubles. Guerin was a 38 year old winger for a conditional draft choice who had one last run in him. However, let's not forget that it still took Max Talbot and Ruslan Fedetenko being taken over by the spirits of Kevin Stevens and Rick Tochett for that Cup run to work.

Neal and Nisky was brilliant, but at the same time he bamboozled a GM who will never be GM of anything ever again. You think Jim Nil makes that trade?

People will bring up the Iginla trade, but in the end it was Iginla who made that trade happen by sticking it to the Flames. Nobody was more suckered by that move than me.

But in between, we've had pick after pick after pick being traded away for RENTALS to cover up for draft shortcomings.

In between, we've had Tanner Glass making 1M a year. We've had Mark ****ing Eaton being re-signed after he couldn't make the ****ing Islanders. The ISLANDERS!!!

In between we've had an organization that hasn't been able to fill the role of a 4th line grinder in his 30's in Adams.

In between, we have a stockpiling of defensemen who need to be "ripened" because they don't play "Penguins ice hockey", even though they're clearly better than the guys the organization "trusts"

In between, we've had one springtime humiliation after another, with nothing more than assurances that whatever went wrong can easily be fixed as long as they kept doing what they were doing.

You my friend were warned over 2 years ago. Bylsma took most of the flak, but his GM had hitched his wagon to him and deserved just as much of the blame.

It is so, so easy to sweep the Poni trades and Eaton signings and the worst bottom six in the league under the rug when you inherited guys like Sid and Geno to insulate you.

There is nothing dynamic about this team. It's 3 or 4 guys carrying the load with flash and dash and tricking everyone who doesn't know better into thinking the TEAM is better than it actually is.

Pretty awesome post all around.

Shero inherited a gold mine and has done little with it since 2009.