News and Blog Report: Training camp & Preseason News & Notes

[oobga]

I would do that trade. Skinner won't cost 2.6M in 2 years. He's going to want 6M+ on his next deal and he's not worth that. Swayman is so much better.

100% would do that trade too. Appreciate Skinner’s last playoffs but I feel like he is a goalie that will always be on the edge of a confidence collapse. Just too risky to go into every playoffs rolling the dice if he will be able to keep it together.

 

[fireantz]

Time to put our top six in together. Try Philp, Pod and Ryan as 4th and Lavoie with Henrique. Need to see Nurse- Emberson. If Nurse is ready Dermott and Gleason are done.

 

[VeteranPresence]

I would do that trade. Skinner won't cost 2.6M in 2 years. He's going to want 6M+ on his next deal and he's not worth that. Swayman is so much better.

I don't know how you fit Sway in even with Kane included... we'd have to move Kulak out as well (either to BOS or in another trade) to even ice a 22-man roster and then you're forced to dress two of Dermott/Stecher/Brown/Gleason when in an ideal world only one of them cracks the team as a #6.

While Swayman would be a great final piece it just doesn't work given our cap structure.

 

[fireantz]

Maybe try Dermott on the right with Kulak. Play Ekholm and Bouchard behind the Drai line to get them going

 

[Louis Cypher]

Any more roster cuts?

 

[ManofSteel55]

100% would do that trade too. Appreciate Skinner’s last playoffs but I feel like he is a goalie that will always be on the edge of a confidence collapse. Just too risky to go into every playoffs rolling the dice if he will be able to keep it together.

I'm not sure if we can put together a nice enough package to get Swayman out of beantown, and if the rumored ask is 8.5M, that's steeeeeep with our other contracts coming due. I'm not saying I wouldn't do it - I'm saying - ouch. Ha ha.

Skinner, Kane, plus futures, and I don't think we can trade futures for Swayman and still have good enough futures to use as trade bait to upgrade RD, which we still have to do. It just doesn't feel plausible.

 

[McShogun99]

I'd be careful with Swayman until I see him play behind a team that isn't as defensively sound as Boston. If Korpisalo ends up looking like a Vezina candidate to start the season then how much of Swayman's success is due to Boston's system?