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

[hockeyfish]

???

 

[CobraAcesS]

I think people just need to try to accept the likelihood that they won't make a major move for a 2C until the summer.

I think they'll add a Dman though

I'm almost there

 

[Hasbro]

Larkin has said so many times he doesn’t want to leave the Red Wings.

He’s their captain, best player, and has shown every indication he wants to be there for his entire career.

Stockholm Syndrome.

 

[BobRossColton]

Zucker is killing it (stat watching), if they can't sign him to an extension, some team will pay for him as a rental

 

[Hasbro]

Does he recoun5 big fat snake eating him?

 

[The Abusement Park]

I'm starting to think Zacha would be overall as a all situations two way center. Especially if you want a center who leans more towards shooting, is good on draws, is better defensively, and PKs.

I mean he's the same level of player as Mitts. It doesn't really change anything with how the team would perform. He's put up the same numbers at Mitts and he's playing with Pasta. His xgf% is sub 50. He has a 46.79 HDCF%. That's just moving from a camping chair to a plastic chair on the Titantic.

 

[Balthazar]

 

[RoyIsALegend]

Are you calling ROR fat? I don't get it lol

???

This is who you can blame for Ryan O’Reilly’s broken down contract negotiations years ago.

 

[The Abusement Park]

I think people just need to try to accept the likelihood that they won't make a major move for a 2C until the summer.

I think they'll add a Dman though

Yup. No one available adds anything Mitts doesn't. At best you trade for a Zacha or a Schenn and get the exact same results essentially.

 

[a mangy Meowth]

Yup. No one available adds anything Mitts doesn't. At best you trade for a Zacha or a Schenn and get the exact same results essentially.

And probably lose ammunition in the process

 

[Balthazar]

ROR was called O'Money for a reason. In the end it worked for him....he got as much money as he could throughout his career and still won a cup.

 

[hockeyfish]

I mean he's the same level of player as Mitts. It doesn't really change anything with how the team would perform. He's put up the same numbers at Mitts and he's playing with Pasta. His xgf% is sub 50. He has a 46.79 HDCF%. That's just moving from a camping chair to a plastic chair on the Titantic.

He still has better stats, more goals, can actually win face offs, can PK, and costs a million less. I’d take him 100 times over Mitts.

 

[Balthazar]

It wasn’t as public as Duchene, but there was a lot of bad blood between ROR and the Avs.

Tyson Barrie too...they avoided arbitration at the last minute and signed a contract that would walk him to UFA. At that time they already knew it was going to be his last contract with the Avs. They traded him after year 3 (it helped to get Makar in the meantime).

 

[CobraAcesS]

This is who you can blame for Ryan O’Reilly’s broken down contract negotiations years ago.

It doesn't look like the same human, but I'll take your word for it.

 

[CobraAcesS]

I mean he's the same level of player as Mitts. It doesn't really change anything with how the team would perform. He's put up the same numbers at Mitts and he's playing with Pasta. His xgf% is sub 50. He has a 46.79 HDCF%. That's just moving from a camping chair to a plastic chair on the Titantic.

Well put lol

 

[a mangy Meowth]

It doesn't look like the same human, but I'll take your word for it.

 

[Tommy Shelby]

If they don't, he's signing in Minnesota in the offseason

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

Did CMac fix all our problems yet?

 

[RoyIsALegend]

It doesn't look like the same human, but I'll take your word for it.

You don’t remember the Lacroix stories of what happened with O’Reilly?

 

[hockeyfish]

Did CMac fix all our problems yet?

Yes, you should get a pack of those blue little pills in the mail tomorrow.

 

[CobraAcesS]

You don’t remember the Lacroix stories of what happened with O’Reilly?

It's a joke because he looks so different. Vaguely, but not the details of how involved he was.

 

[The Abusement Park]

He still has better stats, more goals, can actually win face offs, can PK, and costs a million less. I’d take him 100 times over Mitts.

He has one more point than Mitts this year playing with Pasta... He might be an upgrade, but you know what we'd be saying in round 2? "Zacha sucks. You can't win a cup with him at 2C. Why the f*** do we still not have a legit 2C". He doesn't change anything on this roster.

 

[myperbixhurts]

As others have said, even if we don’t get a 2C who scores more points than Mitts, we need someone who will help the team other ways like being physical, winning faceoffs, being reliable defensively etc.. if he’s not scoring. Mitts does nothing out there if he’s not scoring or setting up his line mates. Just pretty useless

 

[CobraAcesS]

He has one more point than Mitts this year playing with Pasta... He might be an upgrade, but you know what we'd be saying in round 2? "Zacha sucks. You can't win a cup with him at 2C. Why the f*** do we still not have a legit 2C". He doesn't change anything on this roster.

It's Crosby or bust then

 

[Balthazar]

As others have said, even if we don’t get a 2C who scores more points than Mitts, we need someone who will help the team other ways like being physical, winning faceoffs, being reliable defensively etc.. if he’s not scoring. Mitts does nothing out there if he’s not scoring or setting up his line mates. Just pretty useless

He's on pace for 50 points, which would be fine if he could do something else. Right now he single-handedly kills the 2nd line.