Kovalchuk trade watch

my guess is kovalchuk goes to LA too. i don't see lou overpaying for a rental. if the deal was a resigned lova... then all hell would brake lose.
i don't think we should fear him getting traded west or east. he's not managed to be the difference so far with atlanta, why would that change now? only on an unbelievably stacked up team ca we say oh no... like the caps.

LA is my top guess for obvious reasons (space and assets).

Apparently Waddel has been scouting the Isles - maybe they make a push for him? Could offer up DeHaan/Hammonic, and/or Hunter?

Fuel to the NJD fire from Bob McKenzie:

Dudley at Lowell game tonight + Waddell at NJ/Kings + Dudley also at NJ/Leafs. SOMETHING is up!

SeawaySensFan wrote:Fuel to the NJD fire from Bob McKenzie:

Dudley at Lowell game tonight + Waddell at NJ/Kings + Dudley also at NJ/Leafs. SOMETHING is up!

Swirlominoes?

SeawaySensFan wrote:Fuel to the NJD fire from Bob McKenzie:

Dudley at Lowell game tonight + Waddell at NJ/Kings + Dudley also at NJ/Leafs. SOMETHING is up!

Interesting...so the associate GM is out doing some leg work. Wonder who they are specifically looking at. It would HAVE to be a forward + defenseman + pick/prospect, no?

Cap'n Clutch wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:Fuel to the NJD fire from Bob McKenzie:

Dudley at Lowell game tonight + Waddell at NJ/Kings + Dudley also at NJ/Leafs. SOMETHING is up!

Swirlominoes?

All I can say about that is:

Sounds like it'll be NJ. We'll see though...

SpezDispenser wrote:Sounds like it'll be NJ. We'll see though...

NJ huh? Poor Kovalchuck. So there'll be a few more fans to watch him but he's not going to be happy playing under Lemaire and Lou Lam is he?

Cap'n Clutch wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:Sounds like it'll be NJ. We'll see though...

NJ huh? Poor Kovalchuck. So there'll be a few more fans to watch him but he's not going to be happy playing under Lemaire and Lou Lam is he?

Maybe Lou is starting to wake up and see all the empty seats and maybe he wants to generate some excitement?

I don't think anyone planning on acquiring Kovalchuk can be looking at it as a rental. I think it may be something like:

Elias, Oduya, Bergfors, Clarkson and Cormier for

Kovalchuk, Cheddar Armstrong, Kubina and Oystrick

I just want this trade to happen already .... the speculation is killing me

I want The Wizard to get traded so I can change my avatar!!!

Cap'n Clutch wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:Sounds like it'll be NJ. We'll see though...

NJ huh? Poor Kovalchuck. So there'll be a few more fans to watch him but he's not going to be happy playing under Lemaire and Lou Lam is he?

I doubt it.

SeawaySensFan wrote:

Cap'n Clutch wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:Sounds like it'll be NJ. We'll see though...

NJ huh? Poor Kovalchuck. So there'll be a few more fans to watch him but he's not going to be happy playing under Lemaire and Lou Lam is he?

Maybe Lou is starting to wake up and see all the empty seats and maybe he wants to generate some excitement?

I don't think anyone planning on acquiring Kovalchuk can be looking at it as a rental. I think it may be something like:

Elias, Oduya, Bergfors, Clarkson and Cormier for

Kovalchuk, Cheddar Armstrong, Kubina and Oystrick

I dunno. 2nd place in the conference, 1st in their division, games in hand. NJ's been on a bad streak lately, for sure, but that's an enormous deal you're talking about.

I could see NJ dealing something like Rolston/Zubrus + Clarkson/Bergfors, plus an appropriate bag of goodies (pick, prospect). Something like that. NJ has always been a conservative team and is pretty much a slam dunk to make the playoffs this year, so I don't see the need to trade half the team away. And I don't think they desperately need a #1 LW seeing as they have Parise already.

rooneypoo wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

Cap'n Clutch wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:Sounds like it'll be NJ. We'll see though...

NJ huh? Poor Kovalchuck. So there'll be a few more fans to watch him but he's not going to be happy playing under Lemaire and Lou Lam is he?

Maybe Lou is starting to wake up and see all the empty seats and maybe he wants to generate some excitement?

I don't think anyone planning on acquiring Kovalchuk can be looking at it as a rental. I think it may be something like:

Elias, Oduya, Bergfors, Clarkson and Cormier for

Kovalchuk, Cheddar Armstrong, Kubina and Oystrick

I dunno. 2nd place in the conference, 1st in their division, games in hand. NJ's been on a bad streak lately, for sure, but that's an enormous deal you're talking about.

I could see NJ dealing something like Rolston/Zubrus + Clarkson/Bergfors, plus an appropriate bag of goodies (pick, prospect). Something like that. NJ has always been a conservative team and is pretty much a slam dunk to make the playoffs this year, so I don't see the need to trade half the team away. And I don't think they desperately need a #1 LW seeing as they have Parise already.

This is a team that fired their coach when they were a slam dunk to make the playoffs too. They're probably a slam dunk to be eliminated early as well.

Brand new building, perpetually empty seats. I think the conservative formula has run it's course.

SeawaySensFan wrote:
Brand new building, perpetually empty seats. I think the conservative formula has run it's course.

Boy, do I ever hope you're right. Anyway, the countdowns on until Brodeur retires and they're forced to play a non-boring as Dung style.

Is Lou Lam the President as well? If so he's gotta start thinking about attendance doesn't he? Isn't increasing the attendance and the Season ticket base a big part of the President's job?

SeawaySensFan wrote:

rooneypoo wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

Cap'n Clutch wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:Sounds like it'll be NJ. We'll see though...

NJ huh? Poor Kovalchuck. So there'll be a few more fans to watch him but he's not going to be happy playing under Lemaire and Lou Lam is he?

Maybe Lou is starting to wake up and see all the empty seats and maybe he wants to generate some excitement?

I don't think anyone planning on acquiring Kovalchuk can be looking at it as a rental. I think it may be something like:

Elias, Oduya, Bergfors, Clarkson and Cormier for

Kovalchuk, Cheddar Armstrong, Kubina and Oystrick

I dunno. 2nd place in the conference, 1st in their division, games in hand. NJ's been on a bad streak lately, for sure, but that's an enormous deal you're talking about.

I could see NJ dealing something like Rolston/Zubrus + Clarkson/Bergfors, plus an appropriate bag of goodies (pick, prospect). Something like that. NJ has always been a conservative team and is pretty much a slam dunk to make the playoffs this year, so I don't see the need to trade half the team away. And I don't think they desperately need a #1 LW seeing as they have Parise already.

This is a team that fired their coach when they were a slam dunk to make the playoffs too. They're probably a slam dunk to be eliminated early as well.

Brand new building, perpetually empty seats. I think the conservative formula has run it's course.

I could buy into this argument more if Lam were fired, and if Lam didn't go out and get that blast-from-the-NJ-past, Lemaire. Anything's possible, granted, but these don't look like the signs of a coming radical overhaul to me.

rooneypoo wrote:
I could buy into this argument more if Lam were fired, and if Lam didn't go out and get that blast-from-the-NJ-past, Lemaire. Anything's possible, granted, but these don't look like the signs of a coming radical overhaul to me.

What about when Brodeur breaks or retires? Won't that force an overhaul? And don't say that it's all about the system, that system was in place in Minny and they suffocated with very little success.