Trade Bonanza 2012! Speculation, Rumours, the Works!

Riprock wrote:Hard to say, because you don't want to trade prospects or picks if that's how you plan on adding more players later (there are lots of players who could challenge for a spot next year, and Ottawa still has areas to address via draft). So at the same time, you don't want to mortgage the future, and you don't want to NOT improve your team if they have a shot at contending. Catch 22.

Hoags wrote:

Riprock wrote:Hard to say, because you don't want to trade prospects or picks if that's how you plan on adding more players later (there are lots of players who could challenge for a spot next year, and Ottawa still has areas to address via draft). So at the same time, you don't want to mortgage the future, and you don't want to NOT improve your team if they have a shot at contending. Catch 22.

Well we can't be mortgaging the future, we can't go back to the Muckler days when we had nothing in Bingo.

Turris trade was a good move, we caused a smaller hole in our depth at defence by moving Rundblad but we filled a much bigger hole at #2C. The overall team is much better, especially seeing how Turris is playing and he's only getting better.

SeawaySensFan wrote:
A lot of that was poor drafting too. There's a huge difference between "mortgaging the future" and trading away an asset or two.

The Leafs would certainly have an interest in Carolina’s Tuomo Ruutu. The Hurricanes have held talks with his camp, but it’s believed Ruutu wants too much on a long-term deal, which means he’ll likely be moved.

SpezDispenser wrote:He probably wants 5 years at close to 5 million per - which is pretty doable from our end for a 20 goal guy with grit. Maybe you get him down to 4.25 or so, hard to say.

tim1_2 wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:He probably wants 5 years at close to 5 million per - which is pretty doable from our end for a 20 goal guy with grit. Maybe you get him down to 4.25 or so, hard to say.

No thanks. We need money for signing/resigning our own guys, plus opening the vault for Parise.

SpezDispenser wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:He probably wants 5 years at close to 5 million per - which is pretty doable from our end for a 20 goal guy with grit. Maybe you get him down to 4.25 or so, hard to say.

No thanks. We need money for signing/resigning our own guys, plus opening the vault for Parise.

You can still do Parise...Ruutu is young enough to be considered part of our core as a 2nd liner.

SpezDispenser wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:He probably wants 5 years at close to 5 million per - which is pretty doable from our end for a 20 goal guy with grit. Maybe you get him down to 4.25 or so, hard to say.

No thanks. We need money for signing/resigning our own guys, plus opening the vault for Parise.

You can still do Parise...Ruutu is young enough to be considered part of our core as a 2nd liner.

tim1_2 wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:He probably wants 5 years at close to 5 million per - which is pretty doable from our end for a 20 goal guy with grit. Maybe you get him down to 4.25 or so, hard to say.

No thanks. We need money for signing/resigning our own guys, plus opening the vault for Parise.

You can still do Parise...Ruutu is young enough to be considered part of our core as a 2nd liner.

Perhaps. If you look out 3 years, that's when guys like Petersson, Z-Bad, Silf, Turris, Cowen, Lehner, etc etc will be looking for NEW contracts. Depending on how these guys perform, those could be big contracts too. If Ruutu's under a 5 year contract, that's too long, methinks.

SeawaySensFan wrote:
The Spez will be taking a paycut by then. No problemo.

tim1_2 wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:
The Spez will be taking a paycut by then. No problemo.

Only if he continues to pad his stats in meaningless games.

SpezDispenser wrote:Also, why does Buffet bother writing any trade talks? 2 firsts for Gleason, Spacek or Allen? Sure...

Hoags wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:Also, why does Buffet bother writing any trade talks? 2 firsts for Gleason, Spacek or Allen? Sure...

Makes perfect sense. Lots of sellers, very few buyers. Rutherford can pretty much dictate his price.

Those current prices are expensive and they'll come down by the deadline but I'm sure he'll get a lot more than people expect.