Around Hockey XXV (All Non-Jackets Hockey Talk Here)

[CBJWerenski8]

I think Jones has regressed but I also think he’s put his feet up since getting to Chicago and then launching into a rebuild. I think he’ll be better if he goes to a better team.

 

[Iron Balls McGinty]

I think Jones has regressed but I also think he’s put his feet up since getting to Chicago and then launching into a rebuild. I think he’ll be better if he goes to a better team.

So you are saying he's not a guy who makes the players around him better but the players around him make HIM better. Certainly sounds like a guy who folds when the going gets tough and not anyone who should be a leader on any team.

 

[CBJWerenski8]

This could be interesting

 

[koteka]

 

[Iron Balls McGinty]

This could be interesting

I mean either he learned to keep his mouth shut and it will be a boring interview or he will open it up for more bulletin board material. Either way won't be a good look for him but we have no more games against Montreal so any payback will have to wait. You know the questions will come up and if he takes the high road it will seem fake at this point.

 

[SteelCityCannon]

Dean is awesome but man I miss Torts. This also makes me not miss Laine just a little bit more.

 

[Iron Balls McGinty]

As a Devils follower I really appreciate NHL Network actually airing Jacques Lemaire being inducted into their Ring of Honor.

 

[Iron Balls McGinty]

Also, the Devils could be entering the goalie market again down the stetch.

 

[Iron Balls McGinty]

Dean is awesome but man I miss Torts. This also makes me not miss Laine just a little bit more.

Speaking of which, I haven't heard much about this appearance so he must have kept his mouth shut for the most part on anything controversial.

 

[SteelCityCannon]

Speaking of which, I haven't heard much about this appearance so he must have kept his mouth shut for the most part on anything controversial.

Thought the same thing. Haven't listened myself yet. Figured there would be a(nother) 20 page hab thread on the mains though.

 

[Doggy]

I know we don't love "all things Vincent" around here but here is his comments on former Buckeye Jakub Dobeš.

 

[Doggy]

 

[Doggy]

 

[Doggy]

Teams kicking tires on unsigned players...

 

[CBJWerenski8]

 

[Iron Balls McGinty]

Kinda sounds like hanging 7 on us last night wasn’t good enough for the hurricanes.

 

[CBJWerenski8]

 

[Jovavic]

As a fan of a team that starts with a "C", I feel left out.

 

[Iron Balls McGinty]

Is Chicago just the worst that all they got out of this was a 3rd round pick and paying half of Rantanan’s salary?

 

[koteka]

Is Chicago just the worst that all they got out of this was a 3rd round pick and paying half of Rantanan’s salary?

I think they get their own 3rd back (so very early third, not late third) and it is less than half the season for the retention. But Taylor Hall had less value than I expected. You think Chicago might have wanted to keep him hoping to win the draft lottery.

 

[DarkandStormy]

I don't get why Chicago did it. Dump Taylor Hall, retain half on Rantanen's remaining salary, get a 3rd rounder back?

Teams get 3rd/4th rounders for laundering smaller cap hits at the deadline.

Necas has a blistering start. He's just 2-9-11 in his last 19 games. But if Colorado thought they couldn't re-sign Rantanen this is probably the best they could do. One more year under contract and less AAV so it opens up the options to add another piece at the deadline. And if Necas can be 85% of Rantanen that's not too bad?

 

[ThirdPeriodTurtle]

I like it for both teams. Carolina takes a big swing, it's a risky play and they paid a lot, but it could pay off. They weren't getting it done with the previous roster, they needed to try something and this is a big boy try. Colorado sheds some salary, gets some picks and two players who could be useful to reinvigorate their lines throughout the lineup, and opens up a way for a bigger trade if they decide to go for it. Not sure I buy into the whole Crosby idea but that would certainly be intriguing, or they could go after a smaller piece to help propel them to another Stanley Cup. It's not a bad gamble on Colorado's part, if nothing else they get the picks and kick the can one more year (extending a player, now Necas).

Obviously as a Finn the Aho-Rantanen connection is very exciting.

 

[koteka]

Obviously as a Finn the Aho-Rantanen connection is very exciting.

If we still had Laine we could have traded a retained Laine to the Canes (Scott Morrow maybe) and all of Finland would go crazy for Laine-Aho-Rantanen.

 

[Jovavic]

The 3rd that Chicago got back was their own that they traded at the last draft to Carolina, so it's basically a late 2nd