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DirtyDave wrote:Trades?

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Chris Kelly got traded, anyone know what for???!!!!

SpezDispenser wrote:Chris Kelly got traded, anyone know what for???!!!!

BOS, draft pick.

That's all I got.

I'm hearing "mid-round pick".

I'm going to lose my Dung if we traded Kelly for a 3rd.

Ugh, a 2nd.

Brutal.

Don't like this decision.

I'm with you on that one. can't puzzle it out.

TheAvatar wrote:I'm with you on that one. can't puzzle it out.

Looks like to me this management has said, "Spezza, or the old core." And Spezza won out.

Open season on Neil & Phillips now, for sure.

rooneypoo wrote:

TheAvatar wrote:I'm with you on that one. can't puzzle it out.

Looks like to me this management has said, "Spezza, or the old core." And Spezza won out.

Open season on Neil & Phillips now, for sure.

If the right offer came in for Spezza, I wouldn't be shocked to see him dealt. But the right offer likely won't come.

Oglethorpe wrote:

rooneypoo wrote:

TheAvatar wrote:I'm with you on that one. can't puzzle it out.

Looks like to me this management has said, "Spezza, or the old core." And Spezza won out.

Open season on Neil & Phillips now, for sure.

If the right offer came in for Spezza, I wouldn't be shocked to see him dealt. But the right offer likely won't come.

I've long said Spezza isn't a guy you build around, & I really wish we weren't actively trying to do so, but I don't want to open up that can of worms tonight.

Spezza being moved tonight would have caught me less off guard than this. I thought Kelly was here for the long haul for sure, especially after getting a 'A', what, 4 days ago?

Melnyk wanted the budget cut, and Murray is obliging.

rooneypoo wrote:

Oglethorpe wrote:

rooneypoo wrote:

TheAvatar wrote:I'm with you on that one. can't puzzle it out.

Looks like to me this management has said, "Spezza, or the old core." And Spezza won out.

Open season on Neil & Phillips now, for sure.

If the right offer came in for Spezza, I wouldn't be shocked to see him dealt. But the right offer likely won't come.

I've long said Spezza isn't a guy you build around, & I really wish we weren't actively trying to do so, but I don't want to open up that can of worms tonight.

Spezza being moved tonight would have caught me less off guard than this. I thought Kelly was here for the long haul for sure, especially after getting a 'A', what, 4 days ago?

I think that's over-simplifying. I can't see it being an either or choice.

Murray had been talking to Chiarelli about "other things" when The Mayor decided to ask about Kelly.

TheAvatar wrote:

rooneypoo wrote:

Oglethorpe wrote:

rooneypoo wrote:

TheAvatar wrote:I'm with you on that one. can't puzzle it out.

Looks like to me this management has said, "Spezza, or the old core." And Spezza won out.

Open season on Neil & Phillips now, for sure.

If the right offer came in for Spezza, I wouldn't be shocked to see him dealt. But the right offer likely won't come.

I've long said Spezza isn't a guy you build around, & I really wish we weren't actively trying to do so, but I don't want to open up that can of worms tonight.

Spezza being moved tonight would have caught me less off guard than this. I thought Kelly was here for the long haul for sure, especially after getting a 'A', what, 4 days ago?

I think that's over-simplifying. I can't see it being an either or choice.

I don't know how it's not.

Who was OTT's veteran core at the start of the season? Alfie, Spezza, Fisher, Phillips, Kelly, & Neil. If you're shipping out everyone but Spezza & Alfie (& and Alfie is too sacred to even touch), which looks like it's happening, then clearly you're saying, "Spezza is the guy we build around," no?

rooneypoo wrote:

TheAvatar wrote:

rooneypoo wrote:

Oglethorpe wrote:

rooneypoo wrote:

TheAvatar wrote:I'm with you on that one. can't puzzle it out.

Looks like to me this management has said, "Spezza, or the old core." And Spezza won out.

Open season on Neil & Phillips now, for sure.

If the right offer came in for Spezza, I wouldn't be shocked to see him dealt. But the right offer likely won't come.

I've long said Spezza isn't a guy you build around, & I really wish we weren't actively trying to do so, but I don't want to open up that can of worms tonight.

Spezza being moved tonight would have caught me less off guard than this. I thought Kelly was here for the long haul for sure, especially after getting a 'A', what, 4 days ago?

I think that's over-simplifying. I can't see it being an either or choice.

I don't know how it's not.

Who was OTT's veteran core at the start of the season? Alfie, Spezza, Fisher, Phillips, Kelly, & Neil. If you're shipping out everyone but Spezza & Alfie (& and Alfie is too sacred to even touch), which looks like it's happening, then clearly you're saying, "Spezza is the guy we build around," no?

Or he was unmovable with the 7M cap hit attached.