Nanabijou
Booooooooooone
Just my 2 cents, it's fruitless to list forward lines and say why Prospal doesn't fit while listing a bunch of left wingers who couldn't carry Prospal jock strap last year. This roster will be renovated this week and some of those wingers won't be here as soon as even next Sunday. Wouldn't be surprised if Johansen is sent packing soon too.
I don't disagree with you. I think there are many people here who would rather have Prospal at 2.5 M for a year than Umberger at 4.5 M for the next 4. But, trading Umberger is a very difficult proposition with the cap going down. I think we need to hope that Umberger rebounds - he really should be able to match Prospal's numbers the last couple of years but the question is whether he will.
Dubinsky is another matter. I could see Edmonton being very interested in him but I'd rather keep him.
Regardless, it's clear that Jarmo is willing to wait to see what dominoes fall over the next couple of weeks before committing to Prospal. I'm really curious to what's going to go down. I think Jarmo is going to be pretty aggressive.