Smoke about to turn to fire? Sens/Columbus talking turkey

DashRiprock wrote:Bryan Murray denied knowing anything about a Columbus deal, according to Dregger on TSN.

PKC wrote:

BigRig77 wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

504Heater wrote:According to Pierre Lebrun on the Fan 990 and then echoed on the Fan 640, the Sens and the BJs are closing in on a deal. No one seems to know the exact pieces, but Lebrun said it was centered around Pascal Leclaire.

My 2 cents is:

To Ottawa:
Fredrik Modin (LW, 1 more year at 3.2)
Pascal Leclaire (2 more years at 3.8
Kris Russell (1 more year at 750K)

To Columbus:
Antoine Vermette (1 more year at 2.75)
Martin Gerber (UFA)
Christoph Schubert (0.9, 1 more year)

Why Schubert? Because you have to pay a little extra to get teams to take on contracts like Leclaire.

My opinion? Elliot and Leclaire could be the coolest tandem in the league, but I dislike spending that much $$ on a tender who's always injured. The upside is: Elliot will get plenty of playing time. So where would Auld go? Who knows.

Anyway, there's definitely some legs to the Columbus/Ottawa rumours.

As I said yesterday, The Dreger also talked about this deal saying quote: "Gerber is in the mix". Adding that CLB was asking for a center and "grinding winger" in return.

Come to think of it, Schubert is a "grinding winger" and a dominant one at that. (Sens-Pens 2007)

you gotta think though that maybe the goalies are going to be taken out of this equation IF Elliott does really well over the next month.

To Ottawa:
Fredrik Modin (LW, 1 more year at 3.2)
Kris Russell (1 more year at 750K)

To Columbus:
Antoine Vermette (1 more year at 2.75)
Christoph Schubert (0.9, 1 more year)

see now that looks good but seeing as Ottawa's not getting burdened with Leclaire's contract, we will most likely have to take back something else...

What is the point of this trade?

DashRiprock wrote:I just don't think a deal will happen. Sure, most GM's will deny any trade talks, but he could just say "there have been talks" as he has said before. If there were you'd think he might drop a hint to get other teams asking too, maybe create a bidding war.

asq2 wrote:Oh, I'm all for not getting Leclaire.

I'll happily just do Vermette + Kuba for Russell and a 1st.

3 firsts in this draft. :D Hopefully SJ's and Columbus' could be used to move up though.