I think he makes an impact more often than not, even when the scoring dries up. He definitely does go stretches where he’s largely invisible though. But those stretches are usually shorter and farther between than his goal scoring droughts.
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Right move or not, if that deal is offered you take it and laugh your way to the bank. Flip Dunn for assets. Who cares. You don't ever turn down an overpayment that big for a player you are looking to move anyway.
That's more of a video game approach, and I definitely don't agree. Just my opinion but in the real world you don't make trades based only on players market values, you make them based on fit with the organization. I think it's probably extremely rare to trade from players you intend to "flip". Any trade should address organizational needs.
Eh, he was never really an option to begin with.
Video game approach? No. Not for a player you are looking to move which, the rangers kind of are. The same certainly wouldn't apply to Adam Fox or Sheshty.
I hope we don’t get to see what a return for Buch actually looks like.
I think the difference is that people assume he'd be coming at half his cap hit. Not sure that was ever an option if he were to come directly from the TBL.I like how I got a good amount of pushback when I first suggested we get Gourde a month ago, and no we have all of these crazy proposals trading a ton of assets to Tampa for him
I mean, isn't it also possible that Tampa could have something worked out on the side with SEA or someone else to keep Gourde since they realize how valuable he is to their team? Given how they use him, he's easily over-performing relative to his cap hit. Plus, there's that weird smoke out there from Frank Seravalli suggesting that Tampa might have some big move planned.
As for Eichel, yeah, we've beaten this one to death. I'm not interested in gutting what we've built to bring him in with so much uncertainty about his health. I know Friedman reported that he's skating, but something just seems off with how shady BUF has been with his medical records. Plus, the idea that Vince threw out there of trying to keep Eichel *AND* Zibanejad is madness when you factor in the flat cap.
They could be better than a 1/4 of the current NHL teams and in that division who knows. Crazy to think but Seattle and Francis May be eyeing a playoff spot already. Maybe changes the way they are gonna do business?
I dont think going the top tier UFA route to fill the needs on the LH side is what we're looking at here.
Kreider's worst isn't far off from Coleman's best. In fact, he still had a higher WAR last year.
I'm definitely pro-Coleman but you guys are absolutely buggin'.
Where are we putting both? We only have nine spots.
