The Heatley Saga: What's in store in the next 30 days?

GMHockey Braintrust wrote:Hey all it is Clutch here in the south of France. I could not find the apostrophe key so i cannot login as myself and the keys are messed up just enough so that i have to finger type

That's pretty funny, I won't lie.

I picked Marc Savard and Jonathan Toews for you in the Fantasy Pool.

You're welcome on the Toews selection.

Jordo wrote:I'd love to see a deal with Minnesota go down. As far as I'm concerned, if we get Brent Burns out of this- we are set up for a VERY good season. Even without Heatley, our offense is okay.

However, if we snag a left winger out of this deal as well- someone of the PMB or Brunette fame... we would be SET UP. We may need to trade Kelly for him- but imagine getting:

Burns and Pierre Marc Bouchard + Future considerations
for
Heatley + Kelly

I would do Burns for Heatley straight up. Nothing more needed IMO.

I'm still debating whether the Canucks would give up Kesler and Bieksa for Heatley.

They certainly wouldn't give up Hodgson the more I think about it.

That's a nice deal. Leaves the Canucks with a crappy bottom pairing though.

That's where...Lee comes in?

I'm not a big Bieksa fan. Is Kessler really a top 6 or is he a Mike Fisher top 6 ?

Get ready for an interesting 24 hours guys, sounds like Minnesota is or has tabled a big offer for Heatley that includes our boy Brent Burns.

M_Christopher wrote:Get ready for an interesting 24 hours guys, sounds like Minnesota is or has tabled a big offer for Heatley that includes our boy Brent Burns.

Get away...don't get my hopes up and break my heart. It can't handle it.

Sounds like Minny is coming to the trading table hard, and is bringing Brent Burns with them.

Only bad news is, will Heatley agree to go to Minny?

SensChirpMinnesota Wild preparing an offer that will apparently be hard to turn down.I'll update the blog when I can.

Senschirp twittered this also about an hour ago.

M_Christopher wrote:Sounds like Minny is coming to the trading table hard, and is bringing Brent Burns with them.

Only bad news is, will Heatley agree to go to Minny?

Would he not? I'd be uber pissed if he declined to go and we lost out on this.

Diddle me, that would be awesome.

what's more palatable for Heatley? Minny or Ottawa? I'm thinking Minny ...

Me too, but he may the pull the "San Jose wants me" crap again.

Well, I think that at this time, he'll consider himself lucky to get traded anywhere. If I'm murray, I sit him down (if I have the right deal) and tell him:

"you better take this deal because god help me if you don't, you are spending the next 5 years in Ottawa"

Brent Burns? THE BRENT BURNS?? Please make it happen Murray, and if Heatley accepts going to Minny I think I might regain some respect for him

If Heatley goes to Minnesota, I'd learn how to cartwheel and then cartwheel around SBP.

Sidenote: For a skinny guy, I should already be able to cart well

If Brent Burns comes to Ottawa, I might just go buy a Burns Jersey in all three formats (red, white and yes even the ugly third)!! Of course after I buy my Spezza jersey

This rumour makes sense for a lot of reasons. I'm not saying it's going to happen, but it makes sense.

Consider:

1.Tampa Bay trades Artukin (sp) to Anaheim, saves 500K.

2.Tanguay is apparently down to deciding between Minny and Tampa Bay

3.Tampa Bay learns that he's leaning towards them, dumps some extra money.

4.Minny realizes it's lost the final remaining UFA forward of significance.

5.Minny scrambles to meet the Ottawa imposed deadline, begins thinking seriously of acquiring a back-to-back 50 goal man - knowing full well that Murray will want/insist on Burns.

The best part is that they are not really loaded with bad contracts, or stuck up against the Cap ceiling.

I'd take Burns, Miettinen, Sheppard/Cuma/1st for Heatley, Lee/Picard.