Significant Ottawa Rumour

Dawg's Wife wrote:

BigRig77 wrote:
with that being said, the world knows that Alfie's going nowhere so then it's Volchie...

If you look at who we want...Jay Bo....I'm thinking the only way we would land him is if we give Martin what he wants....Vermette and Volchenkov and a pick (bidding war price).

Would I do it? Yes. Does it benefit both teams? Yes.

As much as it's not really talked about but Anton's contract is up end of next year and he's going to want a big raise. He hasn't been blocking shots with his face for nothing...he's a warrior and has given a lot for this team but:

1) I don't think we'll be able to afford him after next year
2) The Sens will keep Philips over him
3) You've got to give to get and we need Jay Bo more than anything right now


Look at the Sens D in 2 years and it could look like this

Philips
Lee
Picard
Bowmeester
Karlson
Smith or SChubert...or (for the love of God maybe) Richardson(!)

either way you look at it, I don't see Anton getting re-signed after he diggs in at demanding 4 Million a season.

Volchenkov isn't going anywhere.

To trade him and Vermette plus a pick for J Bo is crazy. It's overkill, and you're not really improving your team because you get rid of one shut down d-man for an offensive guy who is a UFA. The only way any deal with J Bo gets done before the deadline is if a team has an oportunity to talk to him about an extension.

Murray isn't an idiot and while vermette is likely the guy going wherever you'll not see Volchenkov going, more likely Schubert.

The guys on the trading block right now.

Vermette, Schubert, McCammond, Neil, Donovan, Gerber

Next bubble guys,

Kelly, Foligno, Fisher, Kuba

Everyone else is pretty much safe. With that said Spezza is gone if the right deal comes along, but Murray has stated that there are very few Centremen in this league capable of 100 pts a season, so any deal for Spezza has to be huge. He admitted yesterday on a Sportsnet Article I read that he has offers for Spezza right now, but trading him doesn't make Ottawa a better team.

DashRiprock wrote:He's definitely not overrated though. He's good at what he does, which is score, move the puck, and play solid defense.

Asq2, didn't mean to come across as hostile.

DashRiprock wrote:Of course it could happen, I never said anything about not having Volchenkov, I just pointed out they are total opposites. One if more offensive, while the other is purely defensive. They'd eb a sick pairing. I'm not a big fan of having both Phillips and Volchenkov on a 5-on-5 pairing, they need to be paired each with a PMD.

PKC wrote:
How could you possibly know that? Maybe he'd be content to give up some money to play on a decent team for once in his career. Besides, even if he wants 7 million, let's say, given that the majority of people would have given that to Brian Campbell why is it such a problem to give it to Bouwmeester.

He might not be Lidstrom, but he'd easily be the best defender on about 85% of teams in the league.

PKC wrote:At the same time though, Martin knows exactly that as well.