because hes leaving as a ufa LOLI love Kempe, which probably puts me at odds with a lot of Kings fans for some reason, but why would the Preds trade a better player that's only 2 years older if he's all we're getting in return?
Link? He could just as easily re-sign. We have no idea what Poile is planning at this point.
then get something else, what were you expecting kings fans to offer turcotte, byfield LOL
Not at all. Who's asking for that level of prospect? Preds should be looking at, and based on Poile's comments last year when there were teams asking on Ekholm and Forsberg, a 1st and a high-level prospect. Moving a productive 1st line forward and getting back a 25-year old player with a career high of 37 points (5 years ago) and a 2nd would be a very poor deal for the Preds.
Forsberg has no trade protections and there are likely a lot of teams that would look to add him for a Cup run and nothing more, getting proper value for him should not be an issue assuming the Preds decide to trade him. They can, naturally, probably get a better deal if he works out an extension before-hand, but it's not going to kill the market for him if that doesn't happen. This isn't a disgruntled player with a list of 8 teams he can go to and only 2 of them can actually afford to take him type of scenario.
It may or may not kill the market (debate this) it will however lower the offer your going to get for him if hes flat out saying hes going ufa to a certain team No team is going to pay top assets for a playoff run only. Sorry not happening.
I'd offer Kempe and Vilardi, plus a defensive prospect ala Grans, but they would need to be able to speak to his agent regarding an extension first.They will 1000% find a better offer than Kempe. You make it sound as if there's no in between from Kempe to Byfield so it's either all or nothing
I'm not sure if this set-up would work that well. Forsberg likes to be puck dominant so I'm iffy on him meshing with Kopitar. For the Preds, Forsberg and Arvidsson started to look far too comfortable playing with each other (and Johansen) after the first year or so that line was successful--the effort, drive, and urgency just didn't seem to be there anymore and there was a lot of passive "going through the motions" on the offensive side of the puck. I have no doubt they like playing together, but I don't know it's the way to get the best out of either at this point. With recent history as well, one of them is likely to be on the IR at any given time as well.
Have you seen what Kopitar can do even with the corpse of Dustin Brown on his wing? It wouldn't be a problem. Complacency is based on stagnation and hitting plateaus, we are all too familiar with that here in LA. Quality players rebound - we saw how Carter, Toffoli and to a degree Pearson hit a wall and stayed there until a move shook that quality loose.
If you look back at my posts in this thread my offer was a first and a madden jad thomas (pick one) type offer. My only reason for posting was that the one poster i quote was saying they would get better offers then Kempe vilardi I don't think that
I think it is more to do with Kopitar being very puck dominant and Forsberg's tendency to want to be the same. Then again, if the Preds could get him to stop being that way it would probably benefit his game a bit (though not sure the Kings would have any more luck).
No, we said they'd get better offers than Kempe and a 2nd (or just Kempe as the centerpiece), and they will. Kempe and Vilardi came up after all that.
fair enough but i don't see better then kempe and 2nd for a rental that will play between 10 and 30ish games max. Lets not pretend Kempe is dog crap He is a middle six winger with upside. A touch streaky but a good young player/
Kempe's a fine player, probably my favorite Kings player (then again, I was a huge Frolov fan, so I'm weird like that), but unless there's a huge amount of untapped potential and consistency he's suddenly going to find his upside is limited and he is not what I'm looking for as the primary return on a player like Forsberg. It feels weird that this should sound controversial.
Based on how he got injured that would be our assumption. I think this would be his...second maybe? The other one I can remember was years and years ago though. He seems good at this point to miss 10+ games a season, but the injuries vary.
