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Speculation: Roster Building Thread DCLXXX: Viva Las Vegas!
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NYR Viper
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Per Bobby Mac, Reilly Smith and Jonathan Marchessault going to Vegas.
Vegas is going to need to offload some of these guys or they are going to lose a lot to waivers.
Vegas is going to need to offload some of these guys or they are going to lose a lot to waivers.
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Vinny DeAngelo
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so they have to send down 7 players? They can send players down and trade players it easy to get down to 23 in a few trades.
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So Smith to make sure they take JAM and stay away from their D? That's steep. Thought the Panthers were light on wingers as it is.
Here's the tweet for anyone interested:
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Change is good.
So, at least nine deals just regarding who Vegas would/would not draft. Yeah, I think we'll see a lot of action tomorrow.
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DanielBrassard
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Losing Lindberg means that AVs favorite vanilla pet Stepan is a top center on this team for four more years. With that much invested in AVs vanilla turn the other cheek thinking, it means AV is staying for a good while of those years too.
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Do we know if they're on his no-trade list?
C'mon now Ola. Just stop it. Lindberg is one year younger than Stepan and hasn't shown to be more tha a 4C. Did you also forget that Mika Zibanejad guy? Stepan isn't a problem.
So either the Panthers might get a player back that Vegas picked today, or they're going after Kovalchuk and Dadonov? Idk. Weird day.
Edit: Well now Bob is speculating it was just a money deal. Leave JAM unprotected to get out from under Smith's new contract.
Edit: Well now Bob is speculating it was just a money deal. Leave JAM unprotected to get out from under Smith's new contract.
I understand many of the younger posters. What is wrong with Stepan not performing in the POs, the regular season is fun too! It's not all about winning a Cup. It would be fun to get the top UFAs. It's fun to trade the picks for rentals like Gorton is doing. But wait 10-20 years when our rivals like say the Islanders have won 5 cups since 2017, it's not that fun to year in and year out he that organization that always dumps the kids, invest in vets, always have the softest teams, never win anything. It's not that long until people start talking about 1 Cup in 100 years for this franchise. Nothing
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Vegas will no doubt have 1st round picks already in 2018, plus they can swap some of their bounty in the coming days for more 2018 picks. You don't need to finish bottom 3 to get a crack at #1. They might have 3 or 4 chances at getting #1 next year for all we know. McPhee could have had his cake and eaten it too, so I don't get why being competitive is bull.
They had a choice and I'm not upset they went one way or the other. I just think it has the chance of being a fatal error in not putting an above average team out with the Pacific looking shakey.
Vegas isn't exactly an affluent city for locals. Come 2019 or 2020, I forget when exactly, it's going to be a football town from August to January, maybe February with the potential on that team. Dollars will be spent accordingly.
I hate expansion as a rule. There are too many teams as it is. But I am amped for a Vegas team, can't wait to plan a trip around a ranger game, so I'm not just biased against another desert team. But I will be pissed if we have another sunbelt team dragging down revenue and beating the drum for concessions during cba years.
McPhee was certified genius yesterday because of the potential players and picks he was going to get today. Now it looks like picks and fleury. Wait until the face of your franchise gets sunburn from the goal lamp, see how those green fans turn on one of the few names you market. Now we see the McPhee that lacked the foresight that traded Forsberg for nothing.
They had a choice and I'm not upset they went one way or the other. I just think it has the chance of being a fatal error in not putting an above average team out with the Pacific looking shakey.
Vegas isn't exactly an affluent city for locals. Come 2019 or 2020, I forget when exactly, it's going to be a football town from August to January, maybe February with the potential on that team. Dollars will be spent accordingly.
I hate expansion as a rule. There are too many teams as it is. But I am amped for a Vegas team, can't wait to plan a trip around a ranger game, so I'm not just biased against another desert team. But I will be pissed if we have another sunbelt team dragging down revenue and beating the drum for concessions during cba years.
McPhee was certified genius yesterday because of the potential players and picks he was going to get today. Now it looks like picks and fleury. Wait until the face of your franchise gets sunburn from the goal lamp, see how those green fans turn on one of the few names you market. Now we see the McPhee that lacked the foresight that traded Forsberg for nothing.
Rest assure, there are more than one problem with his franchise. Is Stepan a problem? Who the **** cares if he is a "problem"???
Is Derek Stepan deserving of raising a Cup as a top center and leader for his team? Watch that series against Ottawa and you get an answer.
I don't want a roster with 20 guys that isn't a problem while we sprinkle away picks and kids. I want a team winning a Cup.
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Yeah that's pretty amazing. They lose a couple of past 30 goal scorers on a team who isn't flush with wingers.
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I'd for sure sign Boyle. Especially if Stepan is traded. He is a 4C that can play a larger role when needed. Very good PKer. Good on draws. Seems like a natural fit
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But you're pissed that we lost a player to expansion, unless I'm missing something. We still have a window to deal Stepan and change up the core.
This team did everything it could to win a cup and that's why we have a lack of picks and prospects. Why are we mad they tried? It's an unrealistic standard to demand a cup and a full cupboard of picks and prospects.
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Tawnos
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Stepan had a noticeably bad playoffs this year. Last year, the whole team was bad. The two years before that, in our deepest runs, he basically produced the same way he always does in the regular season. This talk that "Stepan is bad in the playoffs" is BS. He was THIS year. That's not the same as him always being like that.
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