POLL: Zbynek Michalek or Anton Volchenkov

N4L wrote:You know who very well could be the perfect guy to fit into that slot with Phillips? Not to rehash old thoughts but Brent Burns would be basically a glove right there. He would be the best of both worlds.

N4L wrote:
Not even close, if you can give them a forward and perhaps Lee to replace Burns (well kind of) you might be able to get him. If Cullen is resigned you can almost bet Foligno is on his way out so, who knows.

Foligno, Lee, and Ruutu for Burns and a 3rd or 4th (totally random)

N4L wrote:Perhaps, Folingo has that potential even though I doubt he gets there, but he might. I dunno, there are other guys like O'Brien, Bass, so on who might be able to get thrown in there too.

Either way, I dont see Minny giving up Burns, just a thought though. I would pretty much garentee that Murray makes a trade for a legit top 4, offensive D man though.

hemlock wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:

111519 wrote:
AUTO-GENERATED CAPGEEK.COM LINES
FORWARDS
Jason Spezza ($7.000m) / Alexei Kovalev ($5.000m) / Daniel Alfredsson ($4.875m)
Milan Michalek ($4.333m) / Mike Fisher ($4.200m) / * Matt Cullen ($3.000m)
Chris Kelly ($2.125m) / * Andrew Ladd ($2.000m) / Chris Neil ($2.000m)
Jarkko Ruutu ($1.300m) / * Peter Regin ($1.250m) / Bobby Butler ($0.900m)
DEFENSEMEN
* Brian Campbell ($7.100m) / Chris Phillips ($3.500m)
Erik Karlsson ($1.300m) / * Chris Campoli ($1.000m)
Matt Carkner ($0.700m) / Eric Gryba ($0.623m)
GOALTENDERS
Pascal Leclaire ($3.800m) / Brian Elliott ($0.850m)
CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS
ROSTER: 20; PAYROLL: $58.118m; CAP ROOM: $-0.833m BONUSES: $0.485m

Now just pray the cap goes up by 1 million

Okay, let me have a look at the numbers. Cullen's off by 300K, Ladd by 250K , so you're off by 550K IMO, plus GMs always want 1-2 million in cap space for injuries, let's call it 1 million, so you're 1.5 million + 900K, so 2.4 million over.

Close though. I thought you were gonna conveniently forget to put someone in there.

Campoli paired with Karlsson? No thanks. Carkner breaking in a rookie? No thanks. I'd be worried about both those pairings, although each for different reasons.

SpezDispenser wrote:I hope Murray's not thinking about Liles. I thought of that last night as being a big option for a puck-mover, but apparently his game hasn't been great for some time now.

DirtyDave wrote:
have some faith.. he's not going to get us a quick fix/washed up player.. i hope.. maybe he'll sign Gonchar

SpezDispenser wrote:

DirtyDave wrote:
have some faith.. he's not going to get us a quick fix/washed up player.. i hope.. maybe he'll sign Gonchar

I have 100% faith in Bryan Murray. What he did here to clean things up in the last 2 years is astounding IMO.

I still think it'll be Michalek, but I can see him trying to acquire someone if that doesn't work.

DirtyDave wrote:Laich isn't that good.

SpezDispenser wrote:I hope Murray's not thinking about Liles. I thought of that last night as being a big option for a puck-mover, but apparently his game hasn't been great for some time now.

SpezDispenser wrote:

DirtyDave wrote:Laich isn't that good.

How can you tell at this point? Laich has a great year this year, we can only hope Regin matches or even surpasses that, but I wouldn't set that in stone.