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Apparently, Ian "Sendes" Mendes had an interesting interview with Bryan Murray in which he revealed that the "Hamburglar"s emergence as a viable option in goal will force some decisions with respect to our goalers in the off-season.

Who will get moved? Personally, I don't care who it is as long as it's the person that gets us the biggest return. I honestly think the organization feels the same way at this point.

I think Lehner would get us the biggest return, but I feel the Anderson is the right guy to move.

I think the best move is to move Anderson and I've felt that way all along. Andrew Hammond's emergence changes nothing for me other than we might have a viable back up for Lehner without looking elsewhere.

SeawaySensFan wrote:Apparently, Ian "Sendes" Mendes had an interesting interview with Bryan Murray in which he revealed that the "Hamburglar"s emergence as a viable option in goal will force some decisions with respect to our goalers in the off-season.

Who will get moved? Personally, I don't care who it is as long as it's the person that gets us the biggest return. I honestly think the organization feels the same way at this point.

Force?
He just said it gives them an option at the 3rd position which he didn't think the organization had before

LeCaptain wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:Apparently, Ian "Sendes" Mendes had an interesting interview with Bryan Murray in which he revealed that the "Hamburglar"s emergence as a viable option in goal will force some decisions with respect to our goalers in the off-season.

Who will get moved? Personally, I don't care who it is as long as it's the person that gets us the biggest return. I honestly think the organization feels the same way at this point.

Force?  
He just said it gives them an option at the 3rd position which he didn't think the organization had before

Thanks for the clarification.

He also sounded like Jared Cowen will not be traded anytime soon.

LeCaptain wrote:He also sounded like Jared Cowen will not be traded anytime soon.

Pretty safe bet since the deadline was yesterday. But stranger things have happened.

SeawaySensFan wrote:

LeCaptain wrote:He also sounded like Jared Cowen will not be traded anytime soon.

Pretty safe bet since the deadline was yesterday. But stranger things have happened.

When asked about Cowen, he went on the defensive right away. I quote" He is gonna be a great defenseman"
We won't trade Cowen in the next 2 years.

Ev wrote:

SpezDispensed wrote:That has to be a good hockey trade though.  I imagine we'd be getting money coming back.

I still think Anderson, Cowen and the 2 2nds for eberle works on some level, but perhaps that's not enough.  

Way too much from our end.

This is another Bobby Ryan though, maybe not quite as good, but in the ballpark. Another 65-70 point guy that defenders have to key on, he won't come cheap IMO.

Where do you see Eberle playing? In Stone and Ryan, we have two top 6 RWs...Eberle would be a lot of $$$ to spend on a third high-calibre RW. Wouldn't that money be better spent on an elite LW or C....or D for that matter?

tim1_2 wrote:Where do you see Eberle playing?  In Stone and Ryan, we have two top 6 RWs...Eberle would be a lot of $$$ to spend on a third high-calibre RW.  Wouldn't that money be better spent on an elite LW or C....or D for that matter?

Meh, I question whether or not he couldn't just play LW. I know what you mean though, if he's not comfortable, it'd be a waste.

tim1_2 wrote:Where do you see Eberle playing?  In Stone and Ryan, we have two top 6 RWs...Eberle would be a lot of $$$ to spend on a third high-calibre RW.  Wouldn't that money be better spent on an elite LW or C....or D for that matter?

I think Ricky Bobby played LW for 2 seasons with Getzlaf and Perry

CheapShots comes by his nickname honestly. From his "Off the Posts" blog:

...(Mike) Brodeur was more of a one-game wonder and, as far as we can tell, not nearly the same quality of human being as Hammond.

http://blogs.canoe.ca/offtheposts/hockey/andy-or-andy/

LeCaptain wrote:He also sounded like Jared Cowen will not be traded anytime soon.

He said very similar things about Foligno before he was traded, to me that was Murray protecting an asset. If he truly feels that way about Cowen then I again question wtf Murray is thinking. He's in love with his big, powerful, players like Greening, Phillips, Neil, and Cowen.

Cowen isn't a very good NHL hockey player, he's a #5, 6 D man at best.

LeCaptain wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:Where do you see Eberle playing?  In Stone and Ryan, we have two top 6 RWs...Eberle would be a lot of $$$ to spend on a third high-calibre RW.  Wouldn't that money be better spent on an elite LW or C....or D for that matter?

I think Ricky Bobby played LW for 2 seasons with Getzlaf and Perry

Ryan - Zibanejad - Eberle
Hoffman - Turris - Stone
MacArthur - Pageau - Lazar/Michalek

= yes please.

That feels like the first time I've ever slotted Zibanejad as the 1C. Feels good man!

SpezDispensed wrote:

LeCaptain wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:Where do you see Eberle playing?  In Stone and Ryan, we have two top 6 RWs...Eberle would be a lot of $$$ to spend on a third high-calibre RW.  Wouldn't that money be better spent on an elite LW or C....or D for that matter?

I think Ricky Bobby played LW for 2 seasons with Getzlaf and Perry

Ryan - Zibanejad - Eberle
Hoffman - Turris - Stone
MacArthur - Pageau - Lazar/Michalek

= yes please.

That feels like the first time I've ever slotted Zibanejad as the 1C. Feels good man!

I'm not convinced yet that Turris or ZBad are long-term #1C solutions, but time will tell! It's been working pretty good lately (on the back of amazing goaltending).

We don't even miss a beat without MacArthur. Does he have a NTC?

Ev wrote:We don't even miss a beat without MacArthur. Does he have a NTC?

He has a limited NTC. And you're right, we really don't seem to miss him. Last year he was great, but he never reached that level again this year. I really, really like the guy, but he'll have to fight his way back onto the top two lines here.