Rate this trade proposal (Ott/Minny)

Mosky wrote:

504Heater wrote:Is anyone else's text coming up in green?

To answer your question, yes. mine is. lol

yeah mine is too... is it staying this way??

smash88 wrote:

Mosky wrote:

504Heater wrote:Is anyone else's text coming up in green?

To answer your question, yes. mine is. lol

yeah mine is too... is it staying this way??

i hope not, hard on the eyes

I'm not sold on Backstrom quite yet. He plays for a team that has always been very defensively solid, which is a huge boost for him, and more importantly, in his short career so far he is demonstrating that he may have "Havlatitis".

Plus if Elliot really is the goalie of the future why the need to bring Backstrom in? Especially at that price. Much too high for a short term acquisition in my opinion.

504Heater wrote:From Blackhawkswincup on HFBoards:

http://hfboards.com/showthread.php?p=15756408&posted=1#post15756408

To Wild
G Martin Gerber
C Alexander Nikulin
San Jose's 1st
Right for Min to swap 1st round pick in 2010

To Sens
G Niklas Backstrom

I am starting to see a common theme here.

Honestly guys... anyone taking Gerber is doing you a BIG cap favor. You actually have to "up" other parts of your deal to make that interesting.

Nikulin is not interesting to many teams. Ottawa isn't all that high on him, nor is anyone else.

San Jose's 1st is likely to be near the start of the second round.

That mix won't fetch you a solid NHL goalie I don't think. Stranger things have happened I suppose.

Yeah, I think you are right.. Any deal we make, we will probably be on the losing end of it, simply because nobody wants Gerber, and they would be doing us a huge favor by taking him, so they would want a pretty decent package, that would probably be bad for us...

smash88 wrote:Yeah, I think you are right.. Any deal we make, we will probably be on the losing end of it, simply because nobody wants Gerber, and they would be doing us a huge favor by taking him, so they would want a pretty decent package, that would probably be bad for us...

The only way to get rid of Gerber (if that is indeed what people think) is to waive him and put him in the minors and I don't see that happening. Even if he has a good run of games, he is an expensive UFA who comes with the bad goal in big game stigma. Not the most attractive asset out there. We would have to give something like Gerber and a 1st round pick for a 3rd round pick.

I'm getting the feeling unless Murray has one of his trademarked "aces up his sleeve," we are going to be stuck with Gerber until July.

Cronenbergfan wrote:I'm getting the feeling unless Murray has one of his trademarked "aces up his sleeve," we are going to be stuck with Gerber until July.

Yeah, I hate the fact that I think you are right! LOL

Gerber's fine anyway. The team that's Diddle very badly is Colorado. They've waited and waited and waited to find out what everyone knew all along: they have no goaltending.

Good luck with that.

PS Neither does Calgary. Wow.

504Heater wrote:Gerber's fine anyway. The team that's Diddle very badly is Colorado. They've waited and waited and waited to find out what everyone knew all along: they have no goaltending.

Good luck with that.

PS Neither does Calgary. Wow.

Yeah what is going on with Kiprusoff, he's really not doing well at all...

smash88 wrote:

504Heater wrote:Gerber's fine anyway. The team that's Diddle very badly is Colorado. They've waited and waited and waited to find out what everyone knew all along: they have no goaltending.

Good luck with that.

PS Neither does Calgary. Wow.

Yeah what is going on with Kiprusoff, he's really not doing well at all...

Someone took him first overall in my hockey pool. I drafted second.

Wow...why would someone take him first overall.

504Heater wrote:Wow...why would someone take him first overall.

Yeah Kiprusoff went first round in my pool too... I think he was about 8 or 9 overall, but still.... We were only 13 of us in the pool... I ended up with Nabokov with my second pick...

smash88 wrote:

504Heater wrote:Wow...why would someone take him first overall.

Yeah Kiprusoff went first round in my pool too... I think he was about 8 or 9 overall, but still.... We were only 13 of us in the pool... I ended up with Nabokov with my second pick...

I wouldn't worry too much about Kipper, he tends to turn it on when he's ready to.
I think he did the same thing last year, for a pool he's fine but in the meantime he could cost them positioning come playoff time. Every point counts nowadays.


and as for Gerber, he's gone at the deadline this year and we're gonna pick up either Bulin or someone else that can at least spell "rebound kuntrol".

smash88 wrote:

504Heater wrote:Wow...why would someone take him first overall.

Yeah Kiprusoff went first round in my pool too... I think he was about 8 or 9 overall, but still.... We were only 13 of us in the pool... I ended up with Nabokov with my second pick...

I don't understand, what kind of a tool would take Kipper before Nabokov?

BigRig77 wrote:

I wouldn't worry too much about Kipper, he tends to turn it on when he's ready to.
I think he did the same thing last year, for a pool he's fine but in the meantime he could cost them positioning come playoff time. Every point counts nowadays.

Except for last year when he sucked from A-Z pretty much. What the heck is wrong with him - and can he recover? Those are the big (huge) questions for Calgary.

504Heater wrote:

smash88 wrote:

504Heater wrote:Wow...why would someone take him first overall.

Yeah Kiprusoff went first round in my pool too... I think he was about 8 or 9 overall, but still.... We were only 13 of us in the pool... I ended up with Nabokov with my second pick...

I don't understand, what kind of a tool would take Kipper before Nabokov?

Yeah I know... that's why I was glad when I picked Nabokov, all the top goalies were gone by the end of round 3... I ended up with not too bad of a team... I ended up picking up Simon Gagne and Martin Havlat really late, if they can stay healthy I think i have a real good shot...

and now Laraque is coming back for the Habs... So my Goon is finally in the lineup... So fight Laraque fight!