Reply With QuoteCalgary probably needs to trade Iginla. But he's the biggest reason I'm a Flames fan, so if they trade him, I'm probably looking for a new team to follow.
the offseason
premature, yes, but since most of the favoured teams of the posters here have been eliminated we might as well start looking towards next season.
so what do you want to see from your team? what do they need in terms of new guys, who do they need to re-sign, etc.
Calgary probably needs to trade Iginla. But he's the biggest reason I'm a Flames fan, so if they trade him, I'm probably looking for a new team to follow.
Boston could keep their roster 100% intact and I wouldn't mind one bit
But moves are inevitable, so I wouldn't mind seeing another strong D-Man signed and Joe Corvo shipped to northern greenland
what would they trade him for though? he's still a top 15-20 forward, so who could they get for him that'd be an improvement? maybe send him off to hated edmonton for one of their draft picks or recent acquisitions.Originally Posted by math is hard
I kinda want AV gone. The team - well, at least Hank and Gillis - admitted that they kinda peaked with the Bruins game and coasted the rest of the season. While it's the players that did that, it's on the coaching staff to get them to cut that **** out. If he stays, it'll be his 7th season and not many, if any, coaches have won their first Cup with a team that late into their tenure. You got a real sense that the team started tuning him and his staff out. Then again, he is the winningest coach in team history and they did just have their 2 most successful seasons ever under the guy... maybe wait and see how it's going for the first few months next season....
I wouldn't mind seeing Lu go, and not because I think he sucks. To the contrary, but I think Schneider is ready to be a #1 and I'd rather it be in Vancouver than anywhere else. he's younger, cheaper and hasn't the history with the mouth-breathing fanbase that Lu has (yet). Trade that contract and free up some cap space....
Which brings us to what I'd like to see them bring in: a top 4 D (Salo will most likely retire) and a scoring winger.
Probably nothing has done so much harm to the liberal cause as the wooden insistence of some liberals on certain rules of thumb, above all the principle of laissez faire.
there's one thing that, imo, the pens absolutely need next season, and that's a big stay-at-home dman. while letang has more than replaced gonchar, the pens have not replaced the shutdown pair of gill and scuderi, and they were a very important part to the cup win of '09. the fact that the pens haven't made it past round 2 since then is a good indication of that. i really have no idea who is available though, or who the pens would have to give up to get such a player.
there's another question mark though, and that's fleury. on the one hand it's hard not to feel loyalty to him - in 08 and 09 he played excellent in the playoffs. he didn't put him thomas-like numbers, but he almost always seemed to make the big save when it was needed, including that enormous save on lidstrom that led to the cup win. but since then fleury has had the second worst save % in the playoffs out of any starting goalie. he has been anywhere from mediocre (in the last two seasons) to damn-near-worst-performance-for-anyone-ever (in this past series). i'm under no illusions that the pens would trade fleury, but something needs to be done. getting a shutdown man would certainly help. acquiring a reliable backup to allow fleury to rest up some more would also probably do wonders.
beyond those immediate needs, there are some big important contracts on the horizon in the next few years that need to be figured out. i'll leave that for another time.
I don't think they could trade him for anybody who would be an immediate improvement, but he's basically said he doesn't want to play for a team that's in a rebuild phase. They'd have to trade him for picks to a team that's already solid and looking for one or two pieces for a deep playoff run.
problem with that is any team with picks that'd make a trade worth it for calgary would, necessarily, be in rebuild mode.
i hope iginla is traded to see him have his ray bourque year. off the top of my head i don't know where he'd end up without just shafting the flames though.
He'd have to go east. Who in the east needs a scoring power forward on the downside of his career and can afford the price to pay for him?
Probably nothing has done so much harm to the liberal cause as the wooden insistence of some liberals on certain rules of thumb, above all the principle of laissez faire.
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