Respectfully, this is why people like Stellick are commentators and not GM's. I like Gord a lot, but he couldn't be more wrong here. Going all out for a very talented, very injured, malcontent is a Rangers of 97-04 move. An era that many of us are still trying to erase from our memories.
agree, except as to malcontent reference.
Eich made his bed and took top dollar long term.
Now that was made with a reasonable expectation the club would make a legit effort to build a legit Cup challenger.
Instead Sabes have been terrible.
He wants out.
He has a right to demand that given BUF failure.
But neither he nor Sabes have a right to demand a team bail them out of Sabes terms to end their problem.
no price is still too high, totality of factors, including both known costs and unknown risks
I'd do it for a higher/fairer price than that, but it relies on so much juggling with the salary cap, so much knowledge about what the alternative options are that we don't have as fans, knowledge about his injury that we don't have that it's IMO impossible to be unconditionally gung-ho about it. But I'm sure I'm still in like the 75% percentile of wanting to make the move on HFNYR.
I hope our base is smarter than that, but
we didn't give Nieves a chance when it cost ZILCH to try [even if he was only a short term stopgap, there was ZERO reason to not try]
and
this base is about to repeat that mistake by not giving Kravtsov a shot at pivot under my specific advice -- between Kakko + righty shot Panarin at RW. Again, on paper, no reason to not try. risk is minimal [shift back to W if not happenin] and upside is huge [solves many problems].
Let's hope open minds will hear this.
Yes, but I doubt the price is ever THAT low. The reality is that we'll for sure have to send at least one of Lundqvist/Schneider/Kravtsov the other way and I'd really like to see all three of them on NHL ice before trading any of them (Yes, I'm aware Kravtsov has played a few games but I want a bigger sample size before he's potentially moved in a trade).
No price is still too high, totality of factors, including both known costs and unknown risks
Of course. I'd want Drury fired if he didn't. That is too low to refuse... obviously pending a medical eval.
I'd even be fine with a bit more than that. But going all out implies caving to Buffalo's ask of some combination of Kakko, Laf, Lundkvist, Kravtsov, 1st.
No price is still too high, totality of factors, including both known costs and unknown risks
Of course. This offer would be like paying with change from our couch cushion. It won’t be that small.
No price is still too high, totality of factors, including both known costs and unknown risks
A similar package to the one for Nash would be Chytl+Buch then?
No on moving Chytil
if we make an offer it should be
Buch + Strome + Jones
for
Eich and conditional picks [multiple 1sts] if Eich doesn't recover from neck surgery, play up to a certain standard, etc.
If that doesn't cut it, fine.
We are better off looking elsewhere, and I think we are better off
a) building
and
b) if we go big we go for Matthews, and we still do that without dealing our bluest blue chips [other than Jones]. We do something around Zib ++ there, and if/when I get time I'll post it later.