General trade discussion thread

[mglviks]

Need one vs just Zucker/kessel thread.

[mglviks]

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[Hornets]

[https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nhl/new ... jt6c64e6ep]

Zucker for Poms??!!

[bubu dubu.]

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Zucker for Poms??!!

lol

[mglviks]

Bring home middlestadt!

Reinhart wouldnt be bad.

[mglviks]

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Zucker for Poms??!!

lol

With Scandella of course!

[Ron Burgundy 4 President]

UFA Kevin Hayes was spotted golfing at my brother's country club last Friday with Brady Skeji and Ryan McDonough. Maybe just hanging with some friends, maybe in something else?

[Jimtown guy]

UFA Kevin Hayes was spotted golfing at my brother's country club last Friday with Brady Skeji and Ryan McDonough. Maybe just hanging with some friends, maybe in something else?

Thought he signed with Philly

[full force five]

Hayes played with Skeji and McDonough in New York. The end.

[Hole Nova Level]

Well if the Wild, like the rest of the league, are paying attention a few teams will want to try the Blues formula of "relentless pressure/fore-check", which may well be a "cheap" way to do business for the interim, while waiting for those Baby Zach and Bryan contracts to burn up. Teams will "copycat" the most recent Cup Winner/finals teams.

Skill aside, finding guys to fore-check the hell out of the puck would help take pressure off of all the elements that this team thinks it is but is really not. Aside from this team being too easy to play against in general, they have no true personality/identity or "strength".

If nothing else, you tune into the Blues and you see a team that is relentless when attacking the puck. Sustaining attack-zone time of 2-3-4 min-clips and doing it multiple times a game is unprecedented and something the Blues need to get more credit for nationally/media-wise. You can literally SEE their identity. They have big-strong, long-D-men and crazy-aggressive fore-checking F's- Identity. Aside from becoming bigger and longer on the back end, finding and adopting a "fore-checking" mentality/aspect/identity, could be a "cheap" short term fix for the Wild, that could make them semi-competitive.

I mentioned Wayne Simmonds a while back as a middle-tier FA, he'd be able to help that cause.

That said, the game is/has passed the Wild by. Thanks to signing Stall, they have two Slow-aged-Ogre C's (not including Greenway at this point), that can barely get down the ice on the fore-check. So I may just be talking in circles at this point, because it seems like maybe the Wild are gonna let this game keep passing them by.

[Hornets]

Well if the Wild, like the rest of the league, are paying attention a few teams will want to try the Blues formula of "relentless pressure/fore-check", which may well be a "cheap" way to do business for the interim, while waiting for those Baby Zach and Bryan contracts to burn up. Teams will "copycat" the most recent Cup Winner/finals teams.

Skill aside, finding guys to fore-check the hell out of the puck would help take pressure off of all the elements that this team thinks it is but is really not. Aside from this team being too easy to play against in general, they have no true personality/identity or "strength".

If nothing else, you tune into the Blues and you see a team that is relentless when attacking the puck. Sustaining attack-zone time of 2-3-4 min-clips and doing it multiple times a game is unprecedented and something the Blues need to get more credit for nationally/media-wise. You can literally SEE their identity. They have big-strong, long-D-men and crazy-aggressive fore-checking F's- Identity. Aside from becoming bigger and longer on the back end, finding and adopting a "fore-checking" mentality/aspect/identity, could be a "cheap" short term fix for the Wild, that could make them semi-competitive.

I mentioned Wayne Simmonds a while back as a middle-tier FA, he'd be able to help that cause.

That said, the game is/has passed the Wild by. Thanks to signing Stall, they have two Slow-aged-Ogre C's (not including Greenway at this point), that can barely get down the ice on the fore-check. So I may just be talking in circles at this point, because it seems like maybe the Wild are gonna let this game keep passing them by.

I'm still a bit miffed at the Staalzie re-signing. The guy was worth the money they paid but you could tell he clearly has lost a step and with a re-build needed there was no benefit in re-upping him.

[mglviks]

Well if the Wild, like the rest of the league, are paying attention a few teams will want to try the Blues formula of "relentless pressure/fore-check", which may well be a "cheap" way to do business for the interim, while waiting for those Baby Zach and Bryan contracts to burn up. Teams will "copycat" the most recent Cup Winner/finals teams.

Skill aside, finding guys to fore-check the hell out of the puck would help take pressure off of all the elements that this team thinks it is but is really not. Aside from this team being too easy to play against in general, they have no true personality/identity or "strength".

If nothing else, you tune into the Blues and you see a team that is relentless when attacking the puck. Sustaining attack-zone time of 2-3-4 min-clips and doing it multiple times a game is unprecedented and something the Blues need to get more credit for nationally/media-wise. You can literally SEE their identity. They have big-strong, long-D-men and crazy-aggressive fore-checking F's- Identity. Aside from becoming bigger and longer on the back end, finding and adopting a "fore-checking" mentality/aspect/identity, could be a "cheap" short term fix for the Wild, that could make them semi-competitive.

I mentioned Wayne Simmonds a while back as a middle-tier FA, he'd be able to help that cause.

That said, the game is/has passed the Wild by. Thanks to signing Stall, they have two Slow-aged-Ogre C's (not including Greenway at this point), that can barely get down the ice on the fore-check. So I may just be talking in circles at this point, because it seems like maybe the Wild are gonna let this game keep passing them by.

I'm still a bit miffed at the Staalzie re-signing. The guy was worth the money they paid but you could tell he clearly has lost a step and with a re-build needed there was no benefit in re-upping him.

Worse is knowing Boston offered a 1st for him at the deadline.

And then we declined and resigned.

[full force five]

The Blue have huge D, great goalie (small sample) and relentless fast forwards. We have none of those. Our young forwards are small and older ones are super slow. Our D is tiny. Our GM is way over his head. Awesome.