Volodya Krutov
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Speculation: Trade Speculation Part III
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CerebralGenesis
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He has played on Kovy's wing.
Instead of babying players like him and Josefson, usually they have to earn their way up the roster. No one is looking at fault, if you can't contribute then you can look at fault while driving back to Albany.
good thing the coaches agree. Sestito just got called up over Josefson, but we can keep asking that they play top lines despite being meh on the bottom ones on NHL13.
MauDevils
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Devils fans offering a 2nd + Gelinas for Weiss on the trade board...Am I the only one who wouldn't do that?
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Gelinas' offensive upside is screaming goal scoring PP specialist in the big league. No way I'd trade him for a rental player.
Adding a 2nd rounder to Gelinas is just madness.
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He plays with Kovy when Kovy is being double shifted, hardly a consisten basis. I like how when Butler got his goal and assist we were all high on him, and then he doesnt score in the next few games and he somehow is not even NHL worthy. Cant wait for Loktionov to not put up points for a few games... then we are gonna be wanting our draft pick back.
foxboro24
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this is why fans will never be happy we want everyone to play like kovalchuk but to cost how much berneir makes
SteveCangialosi123
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Butler is fine. I'd want him on a line with big bodies so they can do the dirty work and he can get open to use his great shot. Him on a line with Poni and Zubie would work will imo. Why are people so down on him? I think if we were winning no one would be saying **** about him, but we all like to blame someone when we lose. Calm down...
Gelinas has proven nothing in the NHL. We'd be getting a proven top-6 center for a two unknowns. We have plenty of depth on the back-end.
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This...I can see Gelinas stepping in for Zid..urbom who from what hear could play in the NHL now is more similar to what we already have.
CerebralGenesis
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Maybe you fickle types.
I'm not saying he isn't NHL worthy, I'm saying this notion of players being babied is ridiculous.
Replace Butler with Josefson and that exact post would fit in a month ago. Sestito just got called up over him, in real life players earn their stripes.
We also don't have to give up a 1st round pick, which is huge. We can't hoard all of our assets. We must give to get.
SteveCangialosi123
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At this point I don't think we have the assets (that we are willing to trade) to get a big time player. How's this for a suggestion: Kyle Okposo. Talk about buying low...he can't be worth that much now can he? Being on the Islanders has to be demoralizing, so that has to be a factor in his poor play. What do you guys think it would take to get him?
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Gelinas is a 22 years old prospect, of course he didn't prove squat with the big boys yet. This is not a valid argument to trade him for a rental player, even Weiss IMO. We will look great without Eric if Weiss bolts out at the end of the season.
Not with such an offensive upside and so close to NHL ready (1 year again hopefully).
MauDevils
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I'd argue that Gelinas and a 2nd is worth more than a late 1st.
He's 22 and given that he's a converted forward, he's actually developing very quickly.
Weiss has been terrible this year. I'm all for acquiring him, but it needs to be at the right price given the risk (his play/ufa status) involved.
it seems like every skill player we have gets this excuse. If JJ had skill players he would succeed. If tedenby had skill players he would succeed. If butler had skills players he would succeed. Well im sorry but when you put two or more of these "would be's" together, they should do something. If they cant, maybe one of them can be to blame, but you cant give both of them the excuse. Loktionov started on the 4th line and moved up to 1st line in like 3 games.
hell no on kyle okposo. He gets benched and dropped down lines by THE ISLANDERS on a nightly basis
SteveCangialosi123
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That's why we could get him really cheap. He was a top 10 pick and put up 50 something points in his early 20s. He has to have the talent still. I feel like he would benefit from a change of scenery. If we could give them Tallinder(maybe trying to get to the cap floor next year or something idk) and a pick(3rd or higher) I'd give it a shot.
aboriginal
lou ****ing sucks
get out of okposo. you do not want him. god i hate him. hes useless. he burns my eyes when i watch isles games. tons of talent, speed and size and he might as well be oleg kvasha. sure hed be cheap, you get what you pay for there. which is essentially nothing. he sucks.
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aboriginal
lou ****ing sucks
and if were taking advantage of the isles, i want visnovsky. u know he wants to be on a playoff team. it would instantly improve the pp as well. unless of course deebo has a hankerin for tryin his hand with sal on it for the last 25 seconds. god gtfo out deebo.
Gelinas has proven more then Merrill but yet, the majority wants to keep Merrill around.
Arguments can't go both ways here.
aboriginal
lou ****ing sucks
SteveCangialosi123
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Hahaha...maybe if he wasn't on the isles he wouldn't suck so bad..idk I'm just think of guys with talent who are underachieving and would be cheap.
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I'd move Merrill before I'd move Gelinas. Eric is averaging a point every other game at the AHL level and had a fantastic rookie year wich saw him score 16 goals.
When's the last time one of our d-men scored 16 goals... honestly, I don't even remember.
When's the last time one of our d-men scored 16 goals... honestly, I don't even remember.
