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I could have seen a team take him on when they know they aren't going to compete next year. One of the things teams are now offering to contenders is cap space as a trading piece. Like, we'll take on this salary for you for a draft pick, type deal. So I could see a team with cap room, a young team, and working through a rebuild (Toronto, for example) taking on Bickell and a 2nd for a 4th rounder or something. So they improve their draft slot so Chicago has more cap space. Something like that. Bickell has always had the right attitude, as much as I hate watching him play hockey. He'd be a good mentor for a young team that wants to win. Bickell's been there before, played and performed on the biggest stage hockey has to offer. That has some value even if he's about a 0.25 point per game big guy that doesn't hit anyone. |
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Clarkson was traded because they had to take on Nathan Horton's essentially worthless contract. Leafs came into the perfect storm. Clarkson needed out and Jackets couldn't pay Horton not to play, while the Leafs could.
Drouis and his agent really screwed this thing up. I understand wanting out because you weren't playing and you see other players drafted with you starting to get paid. Should have kept it behind the scenes and just played in the AHL. He's not doing himself any favors right now. He just need to say, sorry, I'll go and play in Syracuse. |
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While I'm surprised some guys weren't moved (Hamuis and Vrbata for instance) I'm not totally surprised as so many people seem to be on twitter. The standings are tighter than they've ever been, cap space or lack of makes it tougher to make moves, plus because of the cap, youth is so much more valuable. I mean some 35-year old over the hill guy who is making millions or a 21-year old making $875k? Draft and offseason is where things happen now.
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I am in CT so I don't get all that much Hawks coverage, any word on the status of Hossa? Getting him back for the stretch run would be a big lift to an already great team.
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Well, at least my team made some solid moves today that I can be reasonably excited about.
Other than that, boring deadline day. I didn't expect much, but definitely more than this. |
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Looks like ANA was able to acquire McGinn at the last moment. Conditional 3rd rounder. Not bad.
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Gotta love how the top three lines will look when Hossa Returns: Ladd/Toews/Hossa Panarin/Anisimov/Kane Shawn/Panik/Tervanian Hopefully Kruger will be back for the forth line too to solidify that unit with Mashinter and Rasmussen. Plus their defense is great and Crawford never gets the credit he deserves! |
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Ladd--Toews--Hossa Panarin--Anisimov--Kane Fleischmann--Teravainen--Weise Desjardins--Kruger--Shaw Q and Bowman have gone on record saying they want Teravainen playing center, which is why they got Weise. I could see Shaw playing on that 3rd line too with TT and Weise. As for Hossa, this is one of my favorite hockey articles ever: http://grantland.com/the-triangle/is...hall-of-famer/ Quote:
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Honesty, you never know with Q, he changes it up quite often to benefit the team. Hell, look at some of those games where he had Panarin/Toews/Kane playing on the top line in 5 on 5 situations backed up by both Keith and Seabrook, that is just a devastating combination of talent on one line. Agreed on Hossa being one of the great two way players, I would also say Toews is up there too and Kane has finally changed his game to be more of a two way player as well. |
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Man, as an Avs fan you can't help but be at least sort of excited by this lineup. They need to fill up on experience, of course, but in terms of gathering complementary pieces to fill roles, this is pretty exciting:
Landeskog - MacKinnon - Boedker (Sakic has already said this is the plan) Grigorenko - Duchene - Iginla Comeau - Soderberg - Matthias McLeod - Mitchell - Skille Beauchemin - Johnson Barrie - Holden Gelinas - Bigras/Bodnarchuk And then with Rantanen and Zadorov maybe needing another year of development, this team is in a pretty good situation. Not a Cup winning team this year... but getting there. You can see how deliberate most of their moves have been. |
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Might still see something fun:
Darren Dreger @DarrenDreger 2m2 minutes ago Chiarelli says the Oilers have a trade...lined up in central registry. The Flames also expected to have something. Sounds like a long line. |
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On the subject of Liles, that was unexpected. He had really been doing well in the past couple of months. I'm not sure how much 3rd and 5th round picks are worth, but it doesn't sound like much. I just hope all of this is building up to a mega Faulk/Hanifin/Slavin/Pesce/J. Staal signing spree. |
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Sort of glad that the Flyers did nothing. Was hoping they would dump some of their poorer contracts, but oh well HExtall can't do everything
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Mike Commodore's Twitter has been absolute gold today.
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Wow does Benning look AWFUL today. Really wish we had a Canucks fan here.
Hamhuis said he would have waived to go to Chicago or Dallas. I can't believe they're walking away empty handed. That organization is such garbage. It goes way beyond their screw up the Luongo/Schneider situation. |
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Boring trade deadline. Not too much exciting.
Disappointed islanders didn't do anything important but it was expected. We aren't good enough to make noise as is and could have used some help but not having a second round pick sure likely hurt our chances. |
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