Eh, Sharks fans were the same back in the day (and usually right!).
I’m not kidding when I say that I’m convinced MG could walk into the 2023 draft with like four first round picks for the players that we could sell off of this roster but yes the team would be absolutely awful at least for another year or two
I can recall a few times we talked about guys pretty extensively but it was always on HFSharks. Never other teams boards or the main boards.
Heatley comes to mind. I think we also imagined what it would be like to have Rick Nash for a minute.
Maybe it was a fever dream but iirc GMDW offered Pavs+ 4 Nash but CBJ was demanding Hertl or Couture or something
Highly doubt it was hertl, as Nash was traded just 1 month or less after the draft that hertl was drafted. No team would even try to ask for a player that was just drafted like that. Maybe the pick that was used to select hertl, but not hertl himself
Kane has been pretty bad this year so not surprising. I know there’s the whole past success and such but he has not been very good. Just going off this season alone I’d take Barabanov over Kane right now.
Oh yeah, Kane has been hot garbage this year, which is why him being so selective is hilarious.
We should trade Meier for Kane 1 for 1. Gotta improve our chances at getting Bedard by 2x.
I think the $10M QO has been one of the least understood and overstated things in hockey in recent memory. Given the season that Timo is having (along with last year), he's not going to sign a 1 year $10M deal with anyone under any circumstance.
I mean ROR has a Conn Smythe trophy to his name so not sure the "playoff performer" thing moves the needle in any direction. I'm waiting on Colorado to come out of the clouds for Couture if he's willing to move out of San Jose to chase a Cup.
Dude has 3 Cups. Not like he really needs to chase one if it means going somewhere that him and his family don't fully want to be. If he didn't have one, I'm sure the value proposition is very different for him. Dude loves Chicago and is content to hangout there unless it's one of the few places he wants to be.
It's a tiny market at any time (usually only a handful of buyers and sellers of any particular "product"), featuring "products" whose value is highly subjective (and thus valued very differently by said buyers and sellers) and also highly variable from year to year. Trying to determine "market value" in the trade market is kind of pointless to an extent, because you're essentially operating in a bizarre bespoke barter economy.
No he’s not, he’s horrible this year. Like, “is going to actively detriment the team he’s on” horrible.
Fitzgerald would win GM of the year. Those are spare parts.
No you don’t understand every single asset on the New Jersey Devils is worth a kings ransom. We should be thankful they are even considering sending us spare parts
