You are impatient. And I don’t mean it disrespectfully. You were complaining about the rebuilding last year. I get it. You want to compete. Grabbing any shiny new toy you can get your hand on for a high price compromises what we’ve done the last 3 years.
Well I've said repeatedly that the price has to work. No one cried at the PLD trade because it was not a price we could've paid.
Gainey and Bergevin were not patient at any point. Both built their teams with the mindset that the team had to make the playoffs. Even during what we considered the dark years of the late 90’s/early 2000’s, there was never a rebuild. The team they built just sucked. This is the first rebuild we’ve actually hired personal with the intent of properly rebuilding a team. It has nothing to do with being afraid to compete. It’s about not getting jittery and trying to speed things up prematurely. When you start talking about players like Guhle/Reinbacher as a potential part of any package, we better be getting back something better back then Zegras.
How much do you figure Guhle is worth?
Go big or go home. We’d obviously have to add on top of Guhle for someone like Keller, but those are the only type of deals I’m trading Guhle for right now. Trying to win lateral trades is something Bergevin did. And he was successful with them for the most part outside of Drouin/Sergachev. But they rarely made the team any better because they never moved the needle enough to actually impact the team and make us better.
I think not acquiring Dubois showed the opposite of impatience. For all the noise the media and fans were making about him, it never sounded like there was a big bidding war between us and LA. It was going to happen under our terms or it wasn’t going to happen at all which is what happened. If they’re interested in Zegras, I think it will be much of the same. I like to hope they aren’t going to cave into unrealistic trade demands from Anaheim and if they do work out a trade that makes sense, Hughes I’m sure will have done his due diligence as a former agent that the player isn’t asking for an unrealistic extension like Dubois was.
I would. His value will never be higher than it is now.
Guy was injured, and the 2 prior years he hit 20 goals and 60 points, so he has value as a 2nd line player, for sure.. So I don't see asking for Guhle or Reinbacher as unreasonable; but I'm not doing it and am sure Hughes won't either because both those young D have top pair possibilities and Guhle is a developing no.2 D man right now in my view.
Laine has mental health problems as well as physical problems. DO NOT TOUCH !
Hell yes... Obvious no-brainer for us. The cap offset this year is a non-issue (we can absorb 6M easily & Skinner upgrades the top 6).
For Buffalo?
No,
Eating $27M worth of cap over 3 years for a washed up, undersized player to get the 11th pick does not appeal to me in the least.
Weird. Obviously I disagree entirely. In the asset management game, it's a no brainer from the pov of improving our roster both short and long term.
Luckily it doesn’t matter as Hughes will never make this deal anyways so guess it’s moot. No GM is eating that contract and handicapping themselves for 3 years for an 11th OA especially when there is zero assurance the guy you pick will amount to anything.
I don't think KH goes anywhere near what they want anyhow....looks like they will sign him and move on from their ufa Geuntzal after all is said and done.
