POLL: Murray's best move (PRE-Deadline)

Before the onslaught of the next 48 hours comes into play, rate Bryan Murray's best move as GM of the Ottawa Senators.

1.Joe Corvo and Patrick Eaves for Cory Stillman and Mike Commodore.

2.Ryan Shannon for Lawrence Nycholat

3.SJ's 1st round pick and Dean McAmmond for Mike Comrie and Chris Campoli

4.Andrej Meszaros for Filip Kuba, Alex Picard and SJ's 1st Round Pick

5.Trades 1st round pick and 3rd round pick in 2009 to Nashville for their 1st round pick (Erik Karlsson)

6.Signs Alex Auld to a 2 year, 2 million dollar deal

7.Signs Jarkko Ruutu to a 3 year/1.3 per year deal

8.Other

Big fan of the Shannon for Nycholat trade.

Karlsson.

Yup, Karlsson by a mile.

It's gotta be Karlsson.

504Heater wrote:Big fan of the Shannon for Nycholat trade.

yup said the same... Some of his others were maybe better and had more impact.. But that's the trade where I think we got the most value, since I don't think Nycholat would of ever played for us anyway... Shannon's turning out to be quite the nice addition...

Edit: By the way getting Karlsson, could turn out to be huge in a few years! I agree that he has huge potential...

Karlsson, Karlsson, Karlsson.

Oh man...I forgot to put Wiercioch in there.

Does it really matter? Probably not, it'll be Karlsson who would win that anyway.

smash88 wrote:yup said the same... Some of his others were maybe better and had more impact.. But that's the trade where I think we got the most value, since I don't think Nycholat would of ever played for us anyway... Shannon's turning out to be quite the nice addition...

Edit: By the way getting Karlsson, could turn out to be huge in a few years! I agree that he has huge potential...

I feel the same. Karlsson was probably the shrewdest of them all, but the raw trade of Shannon for Nycholat (who wouldn't have played I don't think) is a real neat one.

I could go either way. It's Diddle fantastic to have Karlsson and Wiercioch in the system, I'll say that much!

504Heater wrote:Oh man...I forgot to put Wiercioch in there.

Does it really matter? Probably not, it'll be Karlsson who would win that anyway.

I think it all ties into the greater move of hiring Anders Forsberg. Although I don't know if he scouted Wiercioch.

Forsberg was directly responsible for Karlsson and Petersson, but I thought he was in charge of overseas scouting only? I could be totally wrong.

I see your point though, Forsberg's hiring should have been on the list of great moves made by Murray.

Karlsson was a good (can't say great until this guy plays at least a shift, come on) draft pick, but a trade to move up a few draft positions is not really much of a trade. The reason I say that is that there were probably a lot of different ways to move up, so the pick is way more important than the actual trade.

For that reason I went with Shannon. I would have been happy with a bag of pucks, and Shannon is one heck of a bag of pucks.

wprager wrote:Karlsson was a good (can't say great until this guy plays at least a shift, come on) draft pick, but a trade to move up a few draft positions is not really much of a trade. The reason I say that is that there were probably a lot of different ways to move up, so the pick is way more important than the actual trade.

For that reason I went with Shannon. I would have been happy with a bag of pucks, and Shannon is one heck of a bag of pucks.

:##: Me too.

I too said Shannon... What a speedy guy he is. He might even be faster than Vermette!

But seriously, getting SHannon for Nycholat (who's been added to the waiver wire) is good, but I also wanted to put Ruutu because he didn't wait long to have his presence known.

Cronie wrote:I too said Shannon... What a speedy guy he is. He might even be faster than Vermette!

But seriously, getting SHannon for Nycholat (who's been added to the waiver wire) is good, but I also wanted to put Ruutu because he didn't wait long to have his presence known.

To tell you the truth, I've been mildly disappointed in Ruutu. Not that I was expecting him to score more, but I did expect him to do a little more. Anyhow, not a biggie.

Now, back to Shannon, that kids got a wicked wrister for a guy his size. I've liked what I've seen of him playing the point on the PP. With him and E. Karlsson back there we might have the best powerplay in the league in a couple of years.