buddha

me too. that's half the fun! 🙂

all of us with our galaxy brain ideas of trading ghost and kane and then trading FOR another star isnt going to happen. the world doesnt work like us working our trade machines on espn.

theyre not trading kane.

nice bench.

i dont know if edvinsson will be better than gotisbehere, but you definitely present the dream case.

again, all this talk about how a player isnt worth x, y, z forgets that this is the trade deadline and all the contenders will overpay for spare parts. the idea that youre going to get a good player for cheap or for marginal prospects is fools gold.

monahan to the jets for a first round pick.

all the top corners are likely to be gone by the time the lions pick. but you never know, drafts are funny things.

i seriously doubt he is there.

cause he's white so no one thinks he is fast enough to play corner.

nobody cares about your cutesy formula one references.

from pierre: "But I think Tanev gets dealt in the end. (Vancouver, by the way, tried hard to have him included in the Lindholm trade, but the price point was too high.) There are just too many teams with interest. The general price tag right now from Calgary is a second-round pick plus another asset, according to league sources. If a team would be willing to jump up to a first-round pick, they’d probably get Tanev now." do you give up a second and beeggren for tanev? if the leafs offer a first do you beat it? if hanifin costs you edvinsson or asp and a first (plus the $7m it costs to resign him) do you do it? i dont do either. still have to pay seider and raymond. edvinsson could be hanifin in a couple years. a second for tanev might be doable but someone will beat it.

is giving up a 3rd rounder for husso a "loss" on the yzerscorecard? maybe a tie.

dont be hurt. we need to trade you.

the statue he builds to himself will have hair. and probably have a list of all the great things the organization has done for the community.

edvinsson? 😉

and remember, the wings have to BEAT the vancouver deal. the wings' first round pick will be better, but they have to beat the "best offensive defenseman in the ohl" and a guy who scored 39 goals last year and a "low(er) level prospect. the wings have ONE prospect who matches up with a guy labeled "the best offensive defenseman in the ohl" and that's sandin pelikka. dont give me any bull**** about buium or wallinder. buium is still stuck in college and wallinder is not tearing up the ahl. the wings have no one who matches with kuznetsov. their best pure goal scorer is debrincat. sprong is a lesser version of kuznetsov. debrincat is much more valuable. sprong isnt valuable enough. lower level 3rd round pick physical player in the minors? mazur. savage. dylan james? that's who youre talking about. its quite possible the canucks see the wings' system differently. we'll never know.

youre taking this way too seriously. i ask you again: who on the wings is equivalent to kuznetsov? 39 goals last year.

i included veleno because he was the equivalent what i would expect from a low level prospect. fabbri isnt close to kuznetsov but the wings dont have anyone who fits that profile as a goal scorer who is a bit older and is having a down season. the point being, if i oversold veleno then i undersold kuznetsov.

kuzmenko is 27 years old and scored 39 goals last year. i replaced him with fabbri. do you think fabbri is the equivalent of someone who scored 39 goals in one season? who would you replace him with?

it will be the one he hangs in the rafters.

here's the information i used when i was trying to think about how that trade matched up with the wings: "Calgary did well too. A first-rounder in 2024. A conditional fourth-rounder in 2024. Plus, two prospects, both of them intriguing, probably Brzustewicz more so than Jurmo, and then Kuzmenko, the most visible and thus known product, who is suffering through a mediocre second NHL season after a very good NHL debut.... Conroy also made it clear that he would happily take prospects over draft picks and that’s what Brzustewicz looks like. Drafted 75th last June, in the third round of the 2023 draft, the 19-year-old has 69 points in 47 games for OHL Kitchener this year, spectacular numbers for a right-shot defenseman. You don’t have to watch Calgary for too long these days to understand its crying need for someone to quarterback the power play. In theory, that’s what Brzustewicz will ultimately become. Jurmo was a third-rounder, chosen in 2020 and currently playing in Finland, who is a big body — 6-foot-3, 207 pounds." that's from the athletic. from the hockey news: https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/vancouver-canucks/analysis/vancouver-canucks-top-10-prospects-january-2024-edition "3. Hunter Brzustewicz- Kitchener Rangers, OHL RD- 6'0", 190 lbs- Round 3, 75th overall in 2023 Hunter Brzustewicz is having a season to remember. The Kitchener Rangers defender leads all players in the OHL with 58 points in 37 games and is on the path to becoming just the 15th defender in OHL history to surpass the 100-point mark in a season. One of the CHL's most dynamic defencemen, he is the mid-season favourite to be named CHL Defenceman of the Year. " that's how i came up with the trade parameters. it wasnt some devious machination to insult you.

joe veleno was a low level prospect who is a bottom six plugger in the nhl. he's a depth piece who was a low level prospect. if anything i UNDERSOLD kuzmenko in comparing him to fabbri.

regardless of the "match" with the wings' roster, that was my point. the deal was too rich for me. they're not going to take berggren or augustine. a contender will always be able to beat that deal and a contender did beat any deal the wings should have offered for a rental. vancouver has the most points in the west and is going for a cup. the wings are barely scrapping into the playoffs. i dont want them giving up first round picks for rentals or players on the downside of their career. you want to give me tanev for a second rounder? i'll take it. and tanev is different than lindholm because he's older and has a no trade clause. he can say no if he doesnt want to end up in winnipeg. like kane, he may want an original 6 team. who knows? lindholm had to take whatever deal (and is a better player). i just dont think the wings should be selling the farm just yet. if edvinsson or mazur or cossa hit and the team turns the corner next year, then we can think about dealing a first in 2025.

you need to settle down and not take this **** personally. its like when you called me names for saying zach wilson was going to be a bust. lol.