buddha

andre never learned and for all his gaudy rebound stats, he was not very good at boxing out or post defense. he's just big. he could have been so much better. hopefully duren learns.

im exaggerating your point, but its still your point. you overvalue what the red wings have to trade. you want to give up nothing of value for something very valuable.

my god. there are 37 more games to go after this.

calgary isnt trading them for veterans with long term deals and scraps! youre worse than a sports talk radio caller. let's trade shai buium, ben chairot, robbi fabbri, and a second round pick for draisatl. edmonton wont be able to sign him in a couple years and we have the cap space.

you say you want the wings to compete and then you want them to trade chairot and kane, two of their best players.

if you cant add offensive value against the wizards you dont belong in the cba, much less the nba.

a sneaky move would be to deal gotishbeare for a first and then promote edvinnson. lets get crazy and deal ghost and perron for picks then use the picks to get lindholm and then promote edvinsson!

i wouldnt trade any good prospects or their first rounder this year for any rentals at the trade deadline. they are not one player away this year. this current squad has enough to make the playoffs this year without a big move. if i can move a second round pick and a marginal prospect for lindholm? sure. but calgary is likely to have better offers than that.

alex lyon is playing like a #1 goalie in detroit and we got him off the scrap heap for next to nothing. sebastian cossa is not playing like a #1 goalie in the AHL and we traded up in the first round to get him. trey augustine is playing like a #1 goalie at the world juniors and at msu and we got him in the secomd round. i remain unconvinced that cossa will live up to his hype. i do hold out hope that he will develop later because he is so big. his ceiling remains high. my head tells me we should trade him if we can get a good return.

i would definitely trade sebastian cossa for either of those players.

it's like a happy version of "fire millen." it brings everyone together.

how much of that has to do with sparty matt ishbia owning the team? who else is going to take a chance on a twice convicted domestic abuser? i wonder if keith appling lives in ishbia's basement? if he does, ishbia probably doesnt know about it.

i dont want to pay lindholm $6-7 million a year to keep him. i dont want to trade a first rounder for a rental. so i dont think the wings are in position to deal for lindholm right now.

in the crowd at the sheffield wednesday-coventry match today. lions are worldwide.

lol

nobody was willing to beat the wings' offer this year. 2 years at $5m ought to get it done if he can continue to produce and stay healthy. the cap is going up and youre going to lose perron after this year and will need another offensive forward.

ok. pronman has kasper rated the #77 prospect in the nhl. if youre calgary and you have the #1 player on the trade market are you going to accept LESS than the #77 prospect in hockey for him? do you think some other team might be able to beat that package?

ok. so what will you accept for trading patrick kane? and once you give up a box of trinkets for the #1 player on the market (lindholm), what are you signing him for and who does he replace? and dont cop out with "i'll let steve yzerman decide that."

lol. ok nhl gm. let's send a 4th round pick and Holl's contract. done.

i believe quinn has interviewed three times in washington.

i would not trade patrick kane. he's their best (only) offensively dynamic player. and as max has pointed out recently, his underlying defensive numbers havent been bad either. not because he plays defense, but because when he's on the ice the other team doesnt have a lot of the puck because kane is so good at possession i wouldnt trade kane, i would re-sign him.

i'd rather have chris tanev than lindholm. if you trade a first round pick and a top prospect (you want to give up kasper or edvinsson for a rental?) for lindholm, who do you cut?

who are you going to trade for lindholm and are you going to re-sign him for the $7-8 mil per year he's going to want?

they can always franchise him. that would really hurt their cap. better to just give him the contract extension which you can fiddle with to make it more cap friendly. the only way goff doesnt stay is if he gets hurt, hooker steps in and wally pipps him. but that is a quite unlikely scenario.

i'll feel fine. this has been the greatest football season in my life. i'll thank them for their service and look forward to nexr season. (but i really hope they win, progress is never guaranteed and they may not be back in the nfc championship game for a while. ya never know.)