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SpezDispenser wrote:

Flo The Action wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:

Oglethorpe wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:

Oglethorpe wrote:If you really think Smith is an overpayment for Hemsky I don't know what you are smokng,

Okay, you tell me why I'm sending a young C with untapped upside, signed to a 1.8 million long term contract for an ultra fragile winger, in the final year of his contract making 5.5 million dollars.

I'm all ears.

Smith is what he is, which is fine but easily replaced.  You are seriously undervaluing skill and speed.

I don't think it's that cut and dried.  Smith is an asset, whether we like him here or not.  It's why we almost moved him for Hjarlmasson last off season and it's why teams continue to inquire about him.  You want to move that asset for a pending UFA?  Even if Hemsky wasn't a pending UFA, @ 5.5 million a throw, you want to invest in that?

Let them draft their own asset, give them a 3rd rounder + O'Brien + Da Costa and tell them you're gonna eat the entire 5.5 million, but don't move an asset that could be used to shore up the D for Hemsky.  It's just not great asset management IMO.

The deal is probably on the table as we speak.  We don't know who's involved and who isn't, but I'll be the first to come in here and eat crow and tell you you're right if it's Smith for Hemsky - if it's even Ottawa who ends up making the final play for him.

how do we know there's a deal on the table? because BM was seen talking to MacT? that could be about something else entirely. (which is what i'm hoping)

Because it makes a lot of sense from both teams POV.  Unless the Oilers think they can get more than what Murray's offering - which we don't even know what it is lol - then, I'd say Ottawa's a pretty fair landing place for Hemsky.

Mind you, there's a ton of other options out there.  Probably options we can't even fathom, so we'll see what actually happens.

LeKing wrote:We're gonna need way more than adding players to look as good as those 2 teams playing right now. Like years of chemistry building.

Hoags wrote:

LeKing wrote:We're gonna need way more than adding players to look as good as those 2 teams playing right now. Like years of chemistry building.

We should have a decent base to build on with the Bingo crowd in there.

LeKing wrote:We're gonna need way more than adding players to look as good as those 2 teams playing right now. Like years of chemistry building.

sandysensfan wrote:
Need some big, tough & skilled wingers...

NEELY wrote:I'll be at Escapade too so I won't see much of it at all.

NEELY wrote:Fuuuuuuuuuuuck yah it is

Ev wrote:

NEELY wrote:Fuuuuuuuuuuuck yah it is

but you need music for it to be music festival

Ev wrote:

NEELY wrote:I'll be at Escapade too so I won't see much of it at all.

what's escapade? it can't be a music festival can it?