Proposal: Trade Proposal Thread #83: Trade Deadline edition

[Tyson]

Yeah, Buffalo are in a weird spot. They’re close to a wildcard spot but i don’t think it would be logical for them to trade their first round pick of a high end prospect.

They have so many high end talented young players that they could make a move without hurting their future.

 

[sampollock]

How do you know this? Was there a reflection from his shiny scalp?

some one seen him at starbucks

 

[Tyson]

Dallas going with Dadonov and Domi. Guess they are comfortable with Oettinger holding down the fort.

Oettinger is a solid goalie.

 

[Habs]

You’re thinking about the playoffs and ‘’toughness’’ in the first round when the habs are at the start of a rebuild, not even close to be in the playoffs yet…

and your refusal to believe you can rebuild without a mixture of both, is just as confusing to me. If you think rebuilding around a 5'7 Cole Caufield and a 145lb Lane Hutson is going to happen without insulating them, I think you are going to be in for a rude awakening. Team does not have to be filled with 'fighters' which somehow you keep eluding too, but physical players who can create room so guys like Cole can continue to shine.

Lets continue down the road of soft bottom lines, and watch the injuries pile up next year.. oh yay how fun.

 

[WinterLion]

Finally!

 

[sampollock]

Kent's presser will be boring, but I understand, he has crap to trade

 

[le_sean]

Yeah, Buffalo are in a weird spot. They’re close to a wildcard spot but i don’t think it would be logical for them to trade their first round pick of a high end prospect.

Maybe they’ll get James Reimer? They need someone half decent in net.

 

[SlafySZN]

They have so many high end talented young players that they could make a move without hurting their future.

Maybe they think they can do something with the guys they have + trading for another player already established to help them now so they would be ok trading a young guy like Kulich or Ostlund but i would be surprised

 

[LV426]

Kent is looking at his phone, waiting for a call

 

[Tyson]

Maybe they’ll get James Reimer? They need someone half decent in net.

Reimer ain't it. Allen could help but there isn't a whole lot of goalie options out there.

Maybe they think they can do something with the guys they have + trading for another player already established to help them now so they would be ok trading a young guy like Kulich or Ostlund but i would be surprised

They could offer Peterka or Quinn (I wouldn't) and land something good.

 

[Runner77]

I’m sure there are. There’s so much that goes on in the background that we have zero idea of.

Exactly this. Easy to imagine the worse when Hughes is just doing his job.

 

[Tyson]

Oettinger is a solid goalie.

Picked after Poehling in 2017

 

[Runner77]

Funny how after all these years people think 'talent' gets the job done, and in the playoffs teams that have zero size/grit to insulate that toughness exit the first round, like clockwork. But hey, lets kill them with small players and speed, i'm sure that's the winning formula since 1994 right?

Did Gorton not learn that lesson while in NY?

Happy to see Eller go to a team contending,was curious who would grab him.

Who’s got the meme of that older lady accosting a blushing Eller on the street, with the caption « mon beau Lars »?

 

[Sterling Archer]

I mean - the biggest stuff is available to public knowledge. Picks and salary cap are all public domain.

The data is available. What's not is what each team is looking for and willing to pay for it. Any player can be traded to a team at the cap with some help. Kane and his $10M got traded to the Rangers who made it happen. If that doesn't show you that when there's a wil, there's a way, I don't know what will.

 

[Habs Icing]

How do you know this? Was there a reflection from his shiny scalp?

Sam snuck into Centre Bell disguised as a janitor and is buffing Kent's head. It's overtime so he's getting paid time and a half.

 

[GobigorGohome]

I was more making a joke of the mangled name than endorsing the idea of trading for Howard. However, as a US NTDP season ticket holder, I do like seeing former NTDP players in the Habs system. We've had season tickets to the two major junior teams that have been here in Plymouth (first the Plymouth Whalers of the OHL, now the NTDP) for over 20 years, and yet Cole Caufield is the only significant player from either team to put on a Habs jersey -- James Wisnewski played part of one season here, and that's been pretty much it.

Plymouth Whalers and London Knights had some good battles.

 

[Sterling Archer]

 

[Tyson]

Yeah we can use another 6th round pick...hurray

 

[Runner77]

The data is available. What's not is what each team is looking for and willing to pay for it. Any player can be traded to a team at the cap with some help. Kane and his $10M got traded to the Rangers who made it happen. If that doesn't show you that when there's a wil, there's a way, I don't know what will.

You mean, where you can put someone on LTIR, there’s a way.

 

[Tyson]

So many team willing to trade the future of their teams to win now, more so than in most years. Is this becoming the strategy where prospects are easily jettisoned to win now?

 

[Team_Spirit]

Picked after Poehling in 2017

And Kailer Yamamoto. The Oilers really needed a 5'8 winger.

 

[Runner77]

So many team willing to trade the future of their teams to win now, more so than in most years. Is this becoming the strategy where prospects are easily jettisoned to win now?

There might have been a shift based on risk assessment. If you can get the missing pieces now, in the minds of most of these wheeler-dealer GMs, it’s better than having to deal with the probabilities of a prospect making it, the years of development, the underwhelming performance in the early years of most prospects.

Plus, in some of the deals we’ve seen, contracts involve players on multi-year terms so the acquiring teams conserve the chance of recouping their draft capital at a later time.

 

[eklund the clown]

Yeah we can use another 6th round pick...hurray

If we can get rid of Drouin for anything would be great .So sick and tired of seeing him on this team doing nothing.Also gets rid of another mistake from our ex GM the idiot

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

If Hugues think dumping 30 points Anderson and Vanilla Harris with the highest 1st will give him a free Dubois then he better not f*** up


We are heading into next season with the same exact roster

 

[Riddick412]

Your post makes no sense.

So you buy a cabin and there's a huge bucket full of shit in it. Your family asks you to try to sell the bucket of shit. You can't find a buyer because nobody wants your bucket of shit. You then have to let the bucket of shit go for nothing. Should your family be outraged because you couldn't get anything for the bucket of shit?

If you're literally hired to get rid of the bucket of shit, yes. It makes complete sense.