What are you talking about? He expressed his view on a public forum. If he wish to not be challenged when factually wrong then he should refrain from posting.
Seriously, a majority of the season he resembled someone having the body aches and lethargy of the flu.
I honestly can not understand how anyone can be 100% trade Fox or 100% do not trade Fox until they hear what would be coming back in return.
There's no time for that when you can just throw out wild strawmen.
And we have the right to mock stupid ideas
OMG, can't believe how thick you're.
The problem is the likelihood of whatever you get back being as good as or replacing what Fox means to this team is almost zero. Then you are stuck with a giant hole at 1D and clinging to hopes that some of the futures you get back may someday live up to that role. I have no interest in reliving the Ryan McDonaugh trade, which more likely than not would be exactly how it would play out.
I'm not in favor of trading Fox, but if he was the main piece of a hypothetical deal for McDavid or MacKinnon, you better believe I'm driving him to the airport. Personally, I would throw Brady T into that group as well, but I'm well aware not everyone here would agree with that, so don't @ me.
Before the season I saw a few top player rankings that had Fox ranked 25-37 in the NHL. I think ESPN had him ranked around 25 just for this 4 teams tournament (which many players did not play in) before it started. I'm not saying we would win a Fox trade or not. I do not like assuming that kind of thing. I'd prefer to hear the details first. If we could get a top 10 player or top 15 player than I think it would be crazy not to look at it. That is unlikely though unless part of a larger package.
This is true. But what needs to be coming back in return to make it plausible is very unrealistic and unlikely to happen that it becomes meaningless to discuss
This is so dramatic lol
Realism and plausibility hasn't stopped roughly a thousand posts about trading Mika Zibanejad, a guy who actually has an NMC in place.
I've used it a couple times for Kakko but never actually wrote words in until now. I did it in paint.
See rules for acceptable, realistic posting like: trading our most hated garbage players for high draft picks.
Forgive my ignorance but are there actual rules for trading discussions? I have not seen them. I do not want to beat a dead horse though. None of what we say will make any difference to NHL teams.
That's fair. I'd have to be blown away but yeah if they were able to get an equal or better player for him, I'd listen. It's the "trade him gor futures" deals in don't care for much.
So, just so we are clear, "punching down" is calling out players and potentially wanting them traded that are playing bad and/or not living up to their contract and "punching up" i can only assume would be the inverse: calling out and wanting traded players that are playing well and living up to their contract. You think that the punching down is the bad position to have and that punching up is good. So you want to keep players that are bad and get rid of players that are good.
