SENS OFF-SEASON TALK 2013

Hoags wrote:You'd need to trade with Carolina and then you're giving up Cowen

NEELY wrote:if you want to talk about trading for any established NHLer today... it's Edler.

DefenceWinsChampionships wrote:I admittedly don't know much about Monahan other than the fact that he put up good numbers on a brutal 67s team.

I think the organization is better off acquiring sure things than prospects given their depth at just about every position.

Hoags wrote:You'd need to trade with Carolina and then you're giving up Cowen

Oglethorpe wrote:

Hoags wrote:You'd need to trade with Carolina and then you're giving up Cowen

Doubt that.

DefenceWinsChampionships wrote:Right, and I'd imagine Carolina would want more than just Cowen? So you're giving up Cowen+ for Monahan. From an organizational perspective, it's a risky move. We'd then have to address adding two top 4 d-men in the near term as well as adding a top-six forward which given the 'budget' I am not sure we can afford to do.

The moves I see Murray making are to trade packages of players/prospects for affordable players who can step in now and make an impact.  

DefenceWinsChampionships wrote:All this to say Murray has a ton of high-potential prospects in the system and for them to take the next step, they'll need to make a move to address their top-six holes.

Zibanejad as it stands now doesn't have a top-six position slated as it is. Between Greening, Hoffman, Puempel, Noesen, Grant, Conacher, Stone, Prince, Cowick you have to assume one or two of those guys can factor into the top-six within the next two/three seasons.

Zibanejad is too good to be a third-line player on this team, and his value now is at an all-time high. Given the financial constraints of some of these teams the value of Zib grows even higher considering he can be an impact player at a relatively cheap cost. For now anyway

Oglethorpe wrote:

DefenceWinsChampionships wrote:Right, and I'd imagine Carolina would want more than just Cowen? So you're giving up Cowen+ for Monahan. From an organizational perspective, it's a risky move. We'd then have to address adding two top 4 d-men in the near term as well as adding a top-six forward which given the 'budget' I am not sure we can afford to do.

The moves I see Murray making are to trade packages of players/prospects for affordable players who can step in now and make an impact.  

Cowen + would get into the top 3.

NEELY wrote:

Oglethorpe wrote:

Hoags wrote:You'd need to trade with Carolina and then you're giving up Cowen

Doubt that.

That's exactly who they would want.  Might be a good move because fact is you can draft a #3, 4 D man (which is what they want Cowen to be in Ottawa) in the later rounds or even sign/trade for them.  A guy like Monahan could be had maybe once a decade from the 5th spot.

Hoags wrote:You'd need to trade with Carolina and then you're giving up Cowen