Rumor: 2024-2025 Trade Rumors and Free Agency Talk | Part Deux

[CobraAcesS]

Well, frankly, Lehky is the closest thing to that they have. He certainly has the determination to take punishment in the net front area, but being able to get to rebounds and gain enough leverage to get off a shot consistently is a little outside his skill set.

Exactly, so I'm saying with the question around Landeskog and Nichushkin. If you want Bednar to keep working as the HC. You neeeeeeeed to truly go find players that make his system work.

When the team isn't scoring off the rush, he wants high low after cycles. We rely on our lower lines to get it deep, and get it back to the D who is often out above their pay grade to create. You need guys in the bottom six who can do that.

When Makar is out there with the third or 4th line dropping bombs and no one is there it drives me nuts.

These guys, Colton and Wood are supposed to be. Wood is there sometimes, Colton never is. Like f*** NEVER for as hard as that dude is supposed to be he's never at the net.

 

[Freaky Styley]

How is Stephenson really any different than Mitts. I think he’s a 50-60 point center. I think we all agree we need an improvement. Stephenson feels more of a re-arranging the chairs

2 Cups where he's played significant roles (4th line C for WSH but outplayed his competition consistently and broke out)
top 6 role on a cup winner with 20 points in 22 games
Plays with speed, better defensively than Mitts.
Over 50% on the dot, PKs

It's not a huge upgrade but probably still an upgrade. Although I'd be watching tapes on those other playoff performances first. I wouldn't move them 1 for 1 though, the incentive would be a guy like Bjorkstrand coming as well. If not, it could be a guy that supplements Mitts instead, but I think they'd go after Gourde instead if that was the goal.

Leaves a possibility for something like:

To COL:
Stephenson
Bjorkstrand

To SEA:
Mittlestadt
+ something

then a 3way

To COL:
Jones @7,5M

To NJ:
Colton
+something

To CHI:
Mercer
Wood

Not sure if the cap all makes sense but maybe a base. Would leave:

Nuke - Mack - Necas
Drouin - Stephenson - Bjorkstrand
Parssinen- Drury - Lehky
Kivi - Kelly - LOC
Ivan/Landeskog POs

Toews - Makar
Girard - Jones
Kylinton - Manson
De Haan - Malinski

With a lot of those guys already under contract for next year and a rising cap (only Drouin really). Also keeps our top prospects like Ritchie (likely). Perhaps a guy like Tanev is targeted instead of Bjorkstrand to make the cap work

 

[flyfysher]

I feel bipolar on this topic..

I'd be a f***in lunatic too between NY and Vancouver.

Part of me gets his frustration, the other part of me thinks he's a bitch, and needs a pillow party.

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Like literally, he needs to stfu, and play hockey.

Too bad there’s no such thing as a STFU clause in one’s contract. At least that I’m aware of.

 

[CobraAcesS]

Too bad there’s no such thing as a STFU clause in one’s contract. At least that I’m aware of.

So just say no

 

[Muffin]

Thought Frost and Farabee were good? Philly just gave them away for free

 

[S E P H]

I understand Kings might not want to keep him in the West, but if Brandt f***ing Clarke is truly available, I would trade every single talented prospect or high draft pick for him in seconds.

Farabee is the best player in that deal easily, I like it from the Flames POV. Not sure wtf the Flyers are doing here. Sure you might get rid of some players Torts doesn't like, but the ones they brought back seem even worse when it regards functioning in his system...unless they want Kuzmenko as a mentor for Michkov.

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

I understand Kings might not want to keep him in the West, but if Brandt f***ing Clarke is truly available, I would trade every single talented prospect or high draft pick for him in seconds.

Based off how Blake has run the Kings, there's a decent chance we could trade him Manson for Clarke

 

[S E P H]

Based off how Blake has run the Kings, there's a decent chance we could trade him Manson for Clarke

Then let's arrange the phone calls then, get this done before someone else comes in.

I'll call McNap, you call Blake

 

[expatriatedtexan]

Imagine Miller seeing Mitts in the weight room.

Imagine Miller hearing MacK's dietary requirements of teamates. He'll be more like....