Ottawa trade rumours

Kovalev to the Habs for a poutine. It doesn't even have to been a real poutine from La Belle Province, it can be a Burger King poutine....

= cap relief

SpezDispenser wrote:All of our guys suck, I want a new toy to play with.

You're gonna love Nugent-Hopkins

Number Twenty Nine wrote:Kovalev to the Habs for a poutine. It doesn't even have to been a real poutine from La Belle Province, it can be a Burger King poutine....

= cap relief

No deal; I'm holding out for the real stuff.

Big Ev wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:All of our guys suck, I want a new toy to play with.

You're gonna love Nugent-Hopkins

Oh yeah.

Tim Murray on the Team just now:

"We've been trying to make trades. Minor trades, major trades, it's just not happening right now."

SpezDispenser wrote:Tim Murray on the Team just now:

"We've been trying to make trades. Minor trades, major trades, it's just not happening right now."

It's the same story with every team. It's pretty much impossible to make trades with the salary cap right now.

If not Butler, call up Locke, Wick, Hoffman ... whatever, that's the only way you're getting new faces into the lineup until the deadline.

SpezDispenser wrote:Tim Murray on the Team just now:

"We've been trying to make trades. Minor trades, major trades, it's just not happening right now."

Minor trades: Lee for a pick

Major trades: Lee and Foligno for a Top 6 forward



In other words, they're not trying hard enough.

Easy to say

TheAvatar wrote:Easy to say

It sure is.

SeawaySensFan wrote:

TheAvatar wrote:Easy to say

It sure is.

Not too difficult to type either.

Cap'n Clutch wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

TheAvatar wrote:Easy to say

It sure is.

Not too difficult to type either.

Cap'n Clutch wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

TheAvatar wrote:Easy to say

It sure is.

Not too difficult to type either.

I dsiagree.

SeawaySensFan wrote:

Cap'n Clutch wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

TheAvatar wrote:Easy to say

It sure is.

Not too difficult to type either.

I dsiagree.

Suorce?

Swirl-ominos!!!!

shabbs wrote:Swirl-ominos!!!!

And it comes full circle.

SeawaySensFan wrote:

Minor trades: Lee for a pick

Major trades: Lee and Foligno for a Top 6 forward



In other words, they're not trying hard enough.

Curious as to this statement I asked someone who is in the NHL whether Lee and Foligno would gather a top 6 forward. The answer quite quickly was NO!.

Simply put, many sens fans over evaluate the players on this team and have way too high an expectation on return. Add to that the person I talked to asked even if a team were to trade a top 6 forward to Ottawa for Lee and Foligno, how would Ottawa handle the added cap. Lee + Foligno = 2 million, and assuming a top 6 makes 4 million there is no way to fit that player under the cap.

Ottawa's best bet in my opinion (and only mine) is to hope they can trade Kovalev and pick or picks to a team like Edmonton. Clearing cap room so they can make deals. Kovalev is on his last year of a deal so a team with cap room can take him without long term implications and get some picks for their trouble. Ottawa clears cap room to make the deal they want or need to make.

DW

My suggestion was Kovalev, Foligno + 3rd for Brad Boyes.

dawg's wife wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

Minor trades: Lee for a pick

Major trades: Lee and Foligno for a Top 6 forward



In other words, they're not trying hard enough.

Curious as to this statement I asked someone who is in the NHL whether Lee and Foligno would gather a top 6 forward. The answer quite quickly was NO!.

DW

DW.

I think that was SSF's point when he said that they weren't trying hard enough because that was not a deal that can realisticallly be done ...