Totally agree we need to get down to three OA's soon for everybody's sake. Just curious but you really do not seem to like Gerrior much. You keep talking about cutting him, he has no trade value ( I disagree strongly by the way
) etc... I'm sure you know from my posts that I think he's a valuable player who brings a lot to the team. So I guess I'd like to know the rationale for your negativity in regards to this player.
With the saturation of the OA market, only the contenders will shuffle OAs. Gerrior isn’t the type of player IMO, that a contender would target to upgrade their existing OAs.
If you look at Ottawa last year, I think that is a the blueprint for upgrades. Teams that already have OAs will want to acquire guys like Kressler, Mayer, and Maillet. Gerrior isn’t a centre. A leas than point per game winger wouldn’t be of much value to a contender.
The non-contenders all already have 3-4 OAs.
This isn’t a situation where Gerrior isn’t good. It’s a situation where there is saturation and that saturation makes players like him have poor trade value.
Stonehouse brings a different element to the game that a contender may value greatly. That intangible factor he has makes him more marketable amongst contenders. But even Stonehouse is questionable for value. We’d need one contender to really feel he is there missing link.