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2016 Lead up to the Trade Deadline thread

Nik the Trik said:
Obviously Hunwick's injury makes him a difficult case but he's someone along with Winnik where I'd be out there shopping him pretty hard despite the extra year on their contracts. I think they're dependable enough performers in their limited roles that the extra year makes them more valuable.
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I agree that those two are guys they should be pushing on other teams. It's more that they're not guys you take the best reasonable offer to come in before 3 PM on Monday, because you have another season on them. If the only offers on them are late picks and salary dumps . . . well, similar or better offers will be out there for them next season. Considering their small cap hits and such, if the offers are all poor, it's worthwhile to keep them around in the hopes they can improve their value a little next season.

For all of the pending UFAs, however - with the possible exception of Reimer, depending on whether the team is interested in bringing him back - the team should be taking the best reasonable offer put forward before the deadline if no team meets the price they're hoping for.
 
bustaheims said:
For all of the pending UFAs, however - with the possible exception of Reimer, depending on whether the team is interested in bringing him back - the team should be taking the best reasonable offer put forward before the deadline if no team meets the price they're hoping for.
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I agree. That's why I'd say there's really only 2 categories. Guys the Leafs should be calling other teams about and guys they're willing to take calls on.
 
Nik the Trik said:
I agree. That's why I'd say there's really only 2 categories. Guys the Leafs should be calling other teams about and guys they're willing to take calls on.
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Yeah, but where's the fun in that kind of binary system?
 
Frank E said:
Dappleganger said:
Nail Yakupov for Jonathan Drouin.

Any thoughts?
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I think that would be a fantastic deal for the Oilers.
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Agreed. I don't think either team does it though. Drouin doesn't really seem like a Chiarelli player, for obvious reasons. They'll look to move Yakupov for either a bigger forward or a defenceman.
 
Frank E said:
Dappleganger said:
Nail Yakupov for Jonathan Drouin.

Any thoughts?
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I think that would be a fantastic deal for the Oilers.
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From a value sense I agree with you but even if the two were of a comparable value what would this deal do for the Oilers? They need wholesale changes and a balancing out of their talent. Drouin does neither.
 
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Thankfully DownGoesBrown was picked up after all the cuts at ESPN, because he's back with another solid column:

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/20-stages-of-learning-that-your-team-has-made-a-trade/

My favourites:

Stage 8: Through force of habit, accidentally looking for those stats on the redesigned NHL.com
Hmmm, looks like his career goals total is "404," his plus-minus is a page-loading icon spinning endlessly into the void, and his Corsi is a GIF of a wombat falling off of a unicycle. Cool. Very useful site.

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Stage 11: Coming across the analytics chart
Eventually, somebody will post a chart that contains all of the player's key advanced metrics in one place. Will you read it? Yes. Will you understand it? No. Nobody ever does. But it still makes you vaguely uncomfortable. The red circle over in that corner is bigger than the blue one in that corner. Is that bad? It seems bad.
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So I guess we all have a sense of who's getting dealt and for what so I guess something I'm interested in is how many people expect there to be a "woah, didn't see that coming" to come from the Leafs on Monday. Personally, I'd bet against that as I think, like the Phaneuf deal, if something like that drops it'll get done pre-deadline.
 
Nik the Trik said:
So I guess we all have a sense of who's getting dealt and for what so I guess something I'm interested in is how many people expect there to be a "woah, didn't see that coming" to come from the Leafs on Monday. Personally, I'd bet against that as I think, like the Phaneuf deal, if something like that drops it'll get done pre-deadline.
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I think if there's a Whaaa??? deal for the Leafs it will involve Gardiner.
 
Teams (buyers & sellers):

Buyers with limited cap space (seven teams): San Jose, Washington, Tampa Bay, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, St. Louis

Buyers with a ton of cap space (seven teams): Boston, Dallas, NY Islanders, Florida, Colorado, Anaheim, Nashville

Other buyers (three teams): Minnesota, NY Rangers, Chicago

Sellers (nine teams): Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Columbus, Buffalo, Arizona

Somewhere in-between (four teams):  Ottawa, Carolina, Philadelphia, New Jersey


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/nhl-trade-deadline-deals-hockey-2016/article28901699/

 
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