Lightning about ready to clean house

Who do you want from the Lightning? Seriously, they're about to clean house I think.

GM Lawton says he's in a process of asking each player if they want to be a Tampa Bay Lightning. I think the majority will say 'Diddle no'.

Other than Stamkos or Vinny? Nothing.

Since neither are going anywhere, nothing.

hemlock34 wrote:Other than Stamkos or Vinny? Nothing.

Since neither are going anywhere, nothing.

I could live with Ranger, Prospal or St. Louis.

Mike Smith would be okay too, I guess.

I was impressed when I watched Evgeni Artyukhin.

I just hope this serves as a warning to owners *coughMelnykcough* not to meddle in General-Managerial affairs.

Lecavalier can't be happy, not after all the trouble that's gone down. Though he does have his championship, so maybe he'll be content spending his career in sunny Florida.

They should try to rebuild...again.

Vermette for St. Louis... take it and go.

Vermette and Schubert for Krajicek and Jokinen?

i want Jokinen

DashRiprock wrote:Lecavalier can't be happy, not after all the trouble that's gone down. Though he does have his championship, so maybe he'll be content spending his career in sunny Florida.

They should try to rebuild...again.

Vermette for St. Louis... take it and go.

Yep. Although, I doubt that happens - we'd have to add, this is the type of thing that's likely to happen.

That would be a pretty Diddle sweet deal to pull off.

Vermette + SJS 1st for St. Louis

St. Louis - Spezza - Heatley
Fisher - Zubov - Alfie

asq2 wrote:
I could live with Ranger, Prospal or St. Louis.

Mike Smith would be okay too, I guess.

I was impressed when I watched Evgeni Artyukhin.

I just hope this serves as a warning to owners *coughMelnykcough* not to meddle in General-Managerial affairs.

Smith will cost a lot, not sure we could afford to acquire him. I thought fleetingly about Ranger, but, I'm not sure what we'd have to give.

Same with Prospal, he's likely happy to be there, he's always going back.

St.Louis is an interesting option IMO. But...he can't play D, he can certainly score 90 points with Spezza and Heatley though.

PKC wrote:That would be a pretty Diddle sweet deal to pull off.

Vermette + SJS 1st for St. Louis

St. Louis - Spezza - Heatley
Fisher - Zubov - Alfie

You could probably do it for Vermette + out 1st rounder. I'm serious, they're Diddle.

504Heater wrote:

PKC wrote:That would be a pretty Diddle sweet deal to pull off.

Vermette + SJS 1st for St. Louis

St. Louis - Spezza - Heatley
Fisher - Zubov - Alfie

You could probably do it for Vermette + out 1st rounder. I'm serious, they're Diddle.

Too bad we don't have the cap space.

PKC wrote:

504Heater wrote:

PKC wrote:That would be a pretty Diddle sweet deal to pull off.

Vermette + SJS 1st for St. Louis

St. Louis - Spezza - Heatley
Fisher - Zubov - Alfie

You could probably do it for Vermette + out 1st rounder. I'm serious, they're Diddle.

Too bad we don't have the cap space.

We could do it, friggin close though. Vermette is 2.75, St.Louis is 5.25 - so a difference of 2.5 million. We have 3.2 in cap space, so we'd have 700K left over in cap relief. We'd probably want closer to 1.5, so you'd have to clear 500K at least. Waive Richardson, perhaps trade Schubert.

504Heater wrote:

PKC wrote:

504Heater wrote:

PKC wrote:That would be a pretty Diddle sweet deal to pull off.

Vermette + SJS 1st for St. Louis

St. Louis - Spezza - Heatley
Fisher - Zubov - Alfie

You could probably do it for Vermette + out 1st rounder. I'm serious, they're Diddle.

Too bad we don't have the cap space.

We could do it, friggin close though. Vermette is 2.75, St.Louis is 5.25 - so a difference of 2.5 million. We have 3.2 in cap space, so we'd have 700K left over in cap relief. We'd probably want closer to 1.5, so you'd have to clear 500K at least. Waive Richardson, perhaps trade Schubert.

Do both. Get Fisher to waive his NTC and send him down to Florida for Bouw. Let's play some hockey.

504Heater wrote:

We could do it, friggin close though. Vermette is 2.75, St.Louis is 5.25 - so a difference of 2.5 million. We have 3.2 in cap space, so we'd have 700K left over in cap relief. We'd probably want closer to 1.5, so you'd have to clear 500K at least. Waive Richardson, perhaps trade Schubert.

Don't forget, Heater, we've actually got *more* cap space at the moment than NHLSCAP.com is saying. They still have Lee and his $1.275 mil on the books right now, which doesn't reflect his demotion last month.

I'm just estimating, but I'd say that once you factor in our previous cap space ($3.2 mil) plus Lee's now-demoted salary ($1.275 mil), minus the money we've spent on call ups on the trip overseas and recently (Elliott, Bass, Shannon, and now Zubov), we've probably got closer to $4.3 or 4.4 mil in cap space. Shannon's salary, I believe, remains on our books as long as he's injured and with the big club.

504Heater wrote:

PKC wrote:

504Heater wrote:

PKC wrote:That would be a pretty Diddle sweet deal to pull off.

Vermette + SJS 1st for St. Louis

St. Louis - Spezza - Heatley
Fisher - Zubov - Alfie

You could probably do it for Vermette + out 1st rounder. I'm serious, they're Diddle.

Too bad we don't have the cap space.

We could do it, friggin close though. Vermette is 2.75, St.Louis is 5.25 - so a difference of 2.5 million. We have 3.2 in cap space, so we'd have 700K left over in cap relief. We'd probably want closer to 1.5, so you'd have to clear 500K at least. Waive Richardson, perhaps trade Schubert.

I'd do it in a second.